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 78
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
PRIVATE MEMBERS BUSINESS
STATISTICS ACT
Mr. Deepak Obhrai (Calgary East, Canadian Alliance): moved for leave to introduce Bill C-
468, an act to amend the Statistics Act (ethnicity question).
He said: Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to rise on behalf of the constituents of Calgary East
to introduce my private member's bill in the House today. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that
no question will be asked about a person's ethnicity in the population census.
Ours is a great country that respects equal rights and equal opportunities for all Canadians. Thus
program initiatives must be available to all with no discrimination. One common thread that holds us all together is that we are all Canadians.
I hope my colleagues will recognize the intent of the bill and will support it because we are and
will remain always Canadians.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
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