EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD
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PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S HOUSE OF COMMONS
The following extract has been taken from Hansard Records of Canada's House of Commons:
36th Parliament, 2nd Session
EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 19
Friday, November 5, 1999
QUESTION PERIOD
1906 CENSUS
Mr. René Laurin (Joliette, BQ): Mr. Speaker, an archaic law is still preventing the people of Quebec and of Canada from having access to the results of the 1906 census and is depriving the university community of historic data.
Will the minister promise to modify this act, already amended in 1918, and lift the restriction on
the 1906 census so that historians can gain a better understanding of this period in our history?
Mr. John Cannis (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Industry, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, it is a well known fact that Statistics Canada, which is an arm's length agency, has a well earned reputation.
In response to the question, we are considering setting up an expert panel of eminent Canadians
who would review the implications of releasing historical records right now.
ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA ACT
Mr. Mac Harb (Ottawa Centre, Lib.): moved for leave to introduce Bill C-312, an act to amend the National Archives of Canada Act and the Statistics Act.
He said: Mr. Speaker, the purpose of this enactment is to mandate the chief statistician of Canada
to transfer to the national archivist of Canada all census information that has been collected since
the 1906 census and information that will be collected in every future census. Such transfer is
currently prohibited. The national archivist of Canada may make such information available to
the public for research and statistical purposes, provided that 92 years have elapsed since its
collection.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
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