Bill C-260

SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Statistics Act to provide that the census of population taken under section 19 of that Act must be taken using a long-form census questionnaire that conforms substantially, in length and substantive scope, to the census questionnaires starting in 1971 and at intervals thereafter to meet the requirements of that section. This enactment also removes the punishment of imprisonment for a person convicted of the offence of providing false or misleading information.