EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD -- PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE :

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 22
Thursday, March 29, 2001
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker



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Release of Census Reports

Presentation of Petition

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 1,853 signatures from Canadians in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec, as well as 550 non-Canadians from all across the United States who are researching their Canadian ancestry, totalling 2,403 persons who are petitioning for the following:

Your petitioners call upon Parliament to take whatever steps necessary to retroactively amend Confidentiality-Privacy clauses of Statistics Acts 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 that I presented on February 20 of this year and the 1,087 I presented to March 14. I have now presented petitions with 3,853 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.