The bill amends the Statistics Act to establish a process to appoint and prescribe additional duties for and increase the independence of the chief statistician of Canada. It also provides for a long-form questionnaire to be used for taking the census of a population.
The bill does not concern a question that is outside federal jurisdiction. It does not clearly violate the Constitution Act. It does concern a question that is substantially the same as one already voted on by the House of Commons. It doesn't concern a question that is currently on the order paper or notice paper as an item of government business.