This bill was last introduced in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session, which ended in September 2019.
Navdeep Bains Liberal
This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.
This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.
This enactment amends the Statistics Act to strengthen the independence of Statistics Canada, including by providing for the appointment of the Chief Statistician to hold office during good behaviour and by assigning to the Chief Statistician the powers related to methods, procedures and operations of Statistics Canada. It also establishes a transparent process to issue directives to the Chief Statistician concerning those methods, procedures and operations or the statistical programs. In addition, it establishes the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council, no longer requires the consent of respondents to transfer their Census information to Library and Archives Canada and repeals imprisonment as a penalty for any offence committed by a respondent. Finally, it amends certain provisions by modernizing the language of the Act to better reflect current methods of collecting statistical information.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Statistics ActRoutine Proceedings
December 7th, 2016 / 3:10 p.m.
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Mississauga—Malton Ontario
Liberal
Navdeep Bains LiberalMinister of Innovation
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Statistics Act.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)