Bill C-260
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
house of commons of canada
BILL C-260
An Act to amend the Statistics Act (mandatory long-form census questionnaire)
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:
1. Section 19 of the Statistics Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):
Mandatory long-form census questionnaire
(4) The census taken at the time and in the manner set out in this section must include the use of a long-form census questionnaire and the distribution of that questionnaire to at least 20% of all households or whatever percentage of households is determined to be necessary by the Chief Statistician to ensure an accurate statistical representation of the Canadian population and its constituent groups.
Definition of “long-form census questionnaire”
(5) In this section, “long-form census questionnaire” means a census questionnaire that conforms substantially, in length and substantive scope, to the long-form census questionnaire used to take the census in 1971 and at intervals thereafter to meet the requirements of this section.
2. The portion of section 31 of the Act after paragraph (b) is replaced by the following:
is, for every refusal or neglect, or false answer or deception, guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
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