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EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD
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PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE

The following extracts have been taken from Hansard Records
of Canada's Senate for the 37th Parliament of Canada:

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
2nd Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 140, Issue 21
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker

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Access to Census Information

Source of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, normally when I rise early in the day in this place, I am presenting a petition. I will be doing so later today. However, I thought honourable senators might be interested to know precisely where these petitions come from, particularly in their own areas. I will go through the list today. These petitions were collected primarily by Muriel Davidson of Brampton and Gordon Watts of Vancouver.

The petitions this week came from Surrey, Vancouver, Victoria, and Richmond, B.C., and the British Columbia Genealogical Society. In Alberta, they came from Crossfield and from Red Deer. In Saskatchewan, they came from Yorkton. In Ontario, they came from Kapuskasing, St. Catharines, Ancaster, Bradford, Toronto, the Smith Family Reunion, the Mississauga Family History Society, Etobicoke, Owen Sound and the British Home Children group in Kingston. In Quebec, they come from the British Home Children group of Sainte-Agathe, Inverness and Saint-Malachi, as well as from the Asbestos société d'histoire. In Nova Scotia, they came from Hilden, from New Waterford and from Halifax.

There were non-resident petitions collected in the provincial archives in Fredericton, New Brunswick and in Canning, Nova Scotia.

The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society collected a great number of names at their meeting. They come from Hawaii; Gig Harbor, Washington; Christchurch, New Zealand; Australia; the Tacoma Genealogical Society; the Reno Family History Centre; Title Research in London, England; the Gold Coast Family History Society of Australia; the Steere family reunion; the Casey family reunion; and the Family History Center in Traverse City, Michigan. One interesting petition from Michigan came from Canadians who work at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan. Other petitions came from Kamloops, British Columbia; from Calgary; from Lethbridge; from Saskatoon, Lindsay and Toronto; from Pointe-Claire, Quebec; from Danville, Kentucky and Dingwall, Scotland.

Honourable senators, there is an interest around the world in Canadian history and genealogy. I will be presenting these petitions later today.

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Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 831 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia who are researching their ancestry, as well as signatures from 422 people from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom who are researching their Canadian roots. A total of 1,253 people are petitioning the following:

Your petitioners call upon Parliament to take whatever steps necessary to retroactively amend the confidentiality privacy clauses of statistics acts since 1906, to allow release to the public, after a reasonable period of time, of post-1901 census reports starting with the 1906 census.

Honourable senators, this makes a total now of 19,482 signatures to the Thirty-seventh Parliament and petitions with over 6,000 signatures to the Thirty-sixth Parliament, all calling for immediate action on this very important matter of Canadian history.