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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 107
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker

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Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, once again I rise with the honour to present 370 more signatures from Canadians, in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, who are researching their ancestry. I also have signatures from 177 people, in 12 states of the United States and from 16 people in the United Kingdom who are researching their Canadian roots. A total of 563 people are petitioning 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 Post 1901 Census reports starting with the 1906 census.

I have now presented petitions with 17,617 signatures to this Thirty-seventh Parliament and petitions with over 6,000signatures to the Thirty-sixth Parliament, all calling for immediate action on this important matter of Canadian history. Honourable senators, it will not stop.