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Bill C-468

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2nd Session, 36th Parliament,
48-49 Elizabeth II, 1999-2000

The House of Commons of Canada

BILL C-468

An Act to amend the Statistics Act (ethnicity question)

      Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Subsection 21(1) of the Statistics Act is replaced by the following:

Census questions

21. (1) Subject to subsection (1.1), the Governor in Council shall, by order, prescribe the questions to be asked in any census taken by Statistics Canada under section 19 or 20.

Exception

(1.1) The Governor in Council shall not prescribe any question that relates to a person's ethnicity to be asked in a census taken under section 19.