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First Session, Forty-second Parliament,

64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-272
An Act to amend the Statistics Act (fire and emergency response statistics)

FIRST READING, May 12, 2016

Mr. Davies

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Statistics Act to require that Statistics Canada collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical information on fire and emergency response.

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1st Session, 42nd Parliament,

64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-272

An Act to amend the Statistics Act (fire and emergency response statistics)

R.‍S.‍, c. S-19

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

1Section 22 of the Statistics Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (r):

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    (r.‍1)fire and emergency response, including, for each calendar year:

    • (i)the total number of fires as well as the monetary losses and number of firefighter and civilian deaths and injuries resulting from those fires,

    • (ii)the fire death rates for each province,

    • (iii)the number of fires that were intentionally set as well as the monetary losses and number of firefighter and civilian deaths and injuries resulting from those fires,

    • (iv)the number of forest fires and number of hectares affected by those fires, and

    • (v)the number of fire departments, the number of fire and emergency responses per department and the subject matter of response calls;

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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons

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