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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 123
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
The Honourable Dan Hays, Speaker

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Access to Census Information

Presentation of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour to present 372 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, who are researching their ancestry, as well as signatures from 127 people in the United States and two from the United Kingdom who are researching their Canadian roots. A total of 502 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.

I have now presented petitions with 18,229 signatures to this Thirty-seventh Parliament and petitions with over 6,000 to the Thirty-sixth Parliament, all calling for immediate action on this important piece of Canadian history.

I would point out to honourable senators that just a fast scan through these petitions today shows that they came from, in Nova Scotia: Kentville, Spring Hill, North Sydney, Beaver Cove; in New Brunswick: Dufferin, Brockway, St. George; in Ontario: Stony Creek, Simcoe, Port Rowan, Hagersville, Omemee, Richmond Hill; in Alberta: Seven Persons, Edmonton, Medicine Hat, St. Albert, Calgary; in Saskatchewan: Creighton; and in Manitoba from Flin Flon.