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EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD
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PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE

The following extract has been taken from Hansard Records of Canada's Senate:

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 16
Thursday, March 15, 2001
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker

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ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petition

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 666 signatures from Canadians in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec, as well as 421 non-Canadians from all across the United States who are researching their Canadian ancestors, totalling 1,087 people who are petitioning the following:

Your petitioners call upon Parliament to take whatever steps necessary to retroactively amend the Confidentiality-Privacy clauses of the Statistics Act since 1906, to allow release to the Public after a reasonable period of time, of Post1901 Census reports starting with the 1906 Census.

These signatures are in addition to the 363 I presented in this place on February 20 this year and the over 6,000 I presented before the previous Parliament.