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EXTRACTS FROM HANSARD
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PROCEEDINGS OF CANADA'S SENATE

The following extracts have been taken from Hansard Records of Canada's Senate
for the 37th Parliament of Canada:

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
1st Session, 37th Parliament,
Volume 139, Issue 100
Thursday, March 21, 2002
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker

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ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 1,518 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories who are researching their ancestry, as well as signatures from 580 people from 20 states of the United States and two people from Germany who are researching their Canadian roots as well. A total of 2,100 people 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.

Furthermore, honourable senators, I have the honour to present 149 signatures from Canada's home children, who petition as follows:

...that the Canadian Government make available all post 1901 Census returns since they are the only public means available to Canadian Home Children and their descendants, who make up 10 per cent and more of our population, to access the whereabouts of their siblings and relatives from whom they have been separated by this country's tacit acceptance of a policy now recognized by the British Government as being misconceived and the cause of irreparable and irrevocable damage to the child migrants and their descendants.

This is a grand total of 2,249 signatures today, in addition to the 14,805 that I have presented in this calendar year. I have now presented petitions with 17,054 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 piece of Canadian history.