Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The amendment is as follows:
That Bill C-36 be amended by adding after line 15 on page 8 the following new clause:
10.1 (1) Subsection 21(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:
21 (1) The Chief Statistician shall, by order, determine the questions to be asked in any census taken by Statistics Canada under section 19 or 20.
(2) Subsection 21(2) of the French version of the Act is replaced by the following:
I won't read the French because I do not want to offend the French language. I take lessons, but I have not mastered French in many years here in the House of Commons. I have the deepest respect for the francophone language—