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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 24
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker

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Access to Census Information

Source of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, since I received such an overwhelming response to my pre-presentation of petitions last week about the census, I thought I would try it again and see if I could annoy some more senators.

This week, I am presenting petitions from Prince Rupert and Victoria in British Columbia; Edmonton in Alberta; Kingston, Sarnia and Milton in Ontario; Repentigny and Ste-Brigitte-des- Saults in Quebec; Andersonville and Rothesay in New Brunswick; New Glasgow in Nova Scotia; Whitehorse in Yukon; Pensacola in Florida; and Hawaii.

It may be of interest to some senators to know that members of their families are probably signing some of these petitions. We have eight people who have signed them with the surname Smith, two with the surname Robertson, two with the surname Adams, two with the surname Christensen, one Murray, one Watt, one Cook and one Atkins.

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Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour, today, to present 325 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as well as the Yukon, who are researching their ancestry, as well as signatures from 116 people from the United States who are researching their Canadian roots. A total of 441 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.

I have now presented petitions with 19,923 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.