EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD -- PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE :
The following extract has been taken from Hansard Records of Canada's Senate:
Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
2nd Session, 36th Parliament,
Volume 138, Issue 25
Wednesday, February 9, 2000
The Honourable Gildas L. Molgat, Speaker
Census Records
Letter from Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies Tabled
Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, with leave of the Senate, and pursuant to rule 28(4), I should like to table a document from the Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies and its 31 societies, which have 10,871 members.
Since discretion is the better part of valour, I will continue in English.
Some Hon. Senators: Order.
The Hon. the Speaker: Is leave granted?
Senator Lynch-Staunton: For what?
The Hon. the Speaker: Senator Milne, a question has been raised: Why should leave be granted?
Senator Lynch-Staunton: Why are you asking for leave?
Senator Milne: I am asking for leave to table a document sent to me by these 31 societies. Since it is a matter on which there is legislation before this house, I cannot do it as a member's statement. I am asking leave to table this document.
Senator Lynch-Staunton: It sounds like a petition.
The Hon. the Speaker: Is leave granted?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
Senator Milne: The letter requests that the confidentiality clauses of the Statistics Act be lifted to permit the release of the 1911 and subsequent census to the public.
Senator Lynch-Staunton: Table the document. Do not debate it.
Senator Milne: I am tabling it.
Senator Kinsella: Get some order over there, will you?
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