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)
1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 55
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker
Access to Census Reports
Petition
Hon. Lorna Milne Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 877 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia who are researching their ancestry, as well as signatures from 148 people from the United States and 8 from Ireland who are researching their Canadians roots. A total of 1,033 people are petitioning the following:.
Your petitioners call upon Parliament to take whatever steps necessary to retroactively amend the Confidentiality-Privacy clauses of Statistics Acts since 1906, to allow release to the Public after a reasonable period of time, of Post 1901 Census reports starting with the 1906 Census.
These signatures are in addition to the 10,677 I have presented in this calendar year. I have now presented petitions with 11,710 signatures to this 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.
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