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OTTAWA, September 27, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Statistics Canada (StatsCan) has stuck a committee to study how to ask Canadians questions to identify their sexual orientation. Not satisfied with having asked to identify whether their relationships were “same-sex” relationships as was done in the last census, StatsCan is looking for more specific information.

Homosexual activists on the StatsCan committee, no doubt upset at the tiny number of couples StatsCan found to be “same-sex”, are demanding that census and survey data should cover other sexual orientations. StatsCan’s Pierre Turcotte, chief of housing and family statistics, told the Hamilton Spectator: “There could be a question about behaviours. The number of sexual partners, for example, and the gender of those partners, might tell us more.”

Barbara Findley, described by the Spectator as “an activist lesbian lawyer from Vancouver who is a member of the StatsCan advisory group”, explained ““It is important to know how many gay and lesbian and bisexual people there are in Canada for policy purposes.”

Turcotte said it is not known when the question might be added. The federal cabinet would have to approve inclusion of such questions in the census, as required by law.

For more see the Spectator at:  https://www.hamiltonspectator.com/news/474749.html

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