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From: "Muriel M. Davidson" <>
Subject: [NFLD-LAB] Post 1901 Census - Presentation of petitions
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:05:12 -0400


>> Forwarded for Gordon Watts <> <<<<<

Greetings All.

FYI. The following extracts from Hansard show the latest petitions to be
presented by Senator Lorna Milne in the Senate, and MP Murray Calder in the
House of Commons. Happy Hunting.

Gordon A. Watts
Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, BC

http://globalgenealogy.com/Census
en francais http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

Permission to forward without notice is granted.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Access to Census Information -- Presentation of Petitions

Hon. Lorna Milne: Honourable senators, I have the honour today to present
1,394 signatures from Canadians in the provinces of B.C., Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island,
Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia who are researching their
ancestry, as well as signatures from 116 people from the United States and
17 from Great Britain who are researching their Canadian roots. A total of
1,527 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.

So far I have now presented petitions with 9,734 signatures to the
Thirty-seventh Parliament. The numbers are climbing. I have presented
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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Thursday, May 17, 2001

PETITIONS -- CENSUS RECORDS

Mr. Murray Calder (Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I rise
to present another petition to the House calling for the release of historic
census records to the public. The petition is signed by more than 5,500
Canadians. Combined with the signatures of the previous petitions that I
have presented on this subject in this session of parliament, the total
number is now over 9,000.

The petition points out that an estimated 7.5 million Canadians are engaged
in the pursuit of their family history and that census records are a
valuable tool for such research. The records have been used in historical
research, for tracing genetic diseases and in settling wills and estates.

The petitioners are calling upon parliament to take whatever steps are
necessary to retroactively amend confidentiality clauses of the Statistics
Act since 1906 to allow the release to the public, after a reasonable period
of time, the post 1901 census records.

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