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House of Commons jOcbates 
 
 FOURTH SESSION-SIXTH PARLIAMENT. 
 
 SPEECHES OF HON. EDWARD BLAKE, M.P., 
 
 ON 
 
 • WEDNESDAY, 20'tu MAEnil, 1890. 
 
 Mr. LLAKK. Quite a miinber of communica- 
 tion.s wei-o .sent me, after tlie last census, iiitiiiiatin.- 
 that if such an understanding as th. hon irenth- 
 nian ha.s just told us e.xisted at Uw. head (.Hie(^ 
 It did not reach the enunieratois in many (niai- 
 ters. r an: very glad to hear wiiat tlie hon. 
 genilenian has said, as h<! has taken a lea.soiial.le 
 view of the matter ; hut the information I re(;eivcd 
 rom many parts of the country is that licople who 
 Jiad been more than twenty years away, and were 
 pennanently away, were })ut on the enumer- 
 ator s list As the hon. inemher for Queen's ( 'ounf' 
 has said, if a father were askeil whether lie 
 expected his hoy, who had been away some fifteen 
 or twenty years, never to come hack, of course 
 the father, in the hope of having his son iiay him 
 a visit, would say that certainly he expected him 
 liack. Ihc son's name would lie put down. That 
 IS the report I have received from mai:y i)arts and 
 my hon. friend from (^uel...,. (Mr. Langelierl c.m- 
 tirms it with regard to that Province. Under these 
 circumstances it would l)e very jmi)nrtai.t for the 
 hon. gentleman to prescriliea maximum of ah.seiice 
 not Witliin whicii everyhody shouM be counted- ' 
 because a man who left yesterday may have gone 
 P'jrmanently, and others may leave with the inten- 
 tion of remaining several months and coining back 
 —but after which no man should l)e couiiteil. It is 
 impossible, from the information I ha\-e leceived 
 to come to any otlier conclusion than that, ()y reason' 
 of this system, a laxity, or discretion, was exer- 
 cised which was grossly misleading. You can put 
 no greater restraint upon the exuberant jiatriot- 
 isin of some enumerators, who may be disposed to 
 count a great many more than he ought as likely to 
 come back, than to adopt a clieck system. I recom- 
 mended such a system on tile occasion of the last cen- 
 sus, and I I eiterate, with added empliasis, from past 
 experience, the necessity of having tile cnumerato- 
 report every absentee he enters on his list. The 
 mere .statement of tlie total numlier of ai)seiit 
 persons who are counted in the population of any 
 liartiLiilar ilistrict would be a great cheek. It 
 would enable us to know to what extent th. .popu- 
 lation of the country is supposed lo be -not merely 
 
 a transitory population, but a population li\-ing 
 
 , away from its Hxed abo.le. This would involve no 
 
 extra tKiiible, aud would not le.juii-e even another 
 
 column. \ oil need not mark those who are i)re- 
 
 j sent at the time ; but if yo • ke .some particular 
 
 ! inark against tli(,.se who a-: alweiit, and give ua 
 
 , tlie hgures in each district, that will be a security 
 
 agauLst laxity and against intentional over-.stating 
 
 ami will of Itself form an important element in the 
 
 tormatioii of a conclusion is to how far the census 
 
 18 really correct. 
 
 Mr. BLAKK. The hon. meniljer for (Jiey speaks 
 and I can nnder.stand his speaking, of „ growing 
 desire on the prrt of Canadians to be returned as 
 heloiigmg to tlie ('anadian nationality. ]nit I was 
 surpriseil to li.'ar the member for iVdifrew (Mr. 
 White) second the ob.servation, that we sliould find 
 this evi.lenee in tlie census, because he with liis 
 sentiments must have been gratifie<l Lo feel that wo 
 can hnd the true .dements of Canadian nationality 
 and unity in aimther part ..f the .Statutebo.)k, tliat 
 js, 111 the i .1 riff Act. There it is that, aceor.ling to 
 Ins view, we hnd our eomm.m bond, or rather .uir 
 most uiu'ommon Ih.iuI.s. That is. .ur national unity 
 an.l It IS in that Act that we tin.l th.< sums and' 
 symhols of .,ur being, at the .same time, one and 
 a sell-separate.l ami a self-containe.l people. 
 
 Mr. BLAKK. The hon. Ministjr has .stated 
 tliat no instructions have as yet been issue.l with 
 respect to the eeii.siis. I have oliserved in the 
 public journals a stat.^ment that soinctiine ago a 
 circular was issue.l t.. medical men tlirougliout the 
 Donunmn with res[)ect to tlie appr.»aehing census 
 asking them to ..btaiii ami transmit to the Depart- 
 ment certain informati.>n in reganl t.) .sanitary 
 matters, hygiene, mortality, an.l s.. forth. Is that 
 so .' If It IS so, will the h.m. gentlemai. liriiur 
 .l.mn the pajiers ': " 
 
 Mr. CAKUNC. I shall be gla.l t.) bring ,lown 
 the niformati.m. 'I'he circular was .sent ..ut by 
 Mr dohns.in, stali.stician of the Departineut, in 
 .ir.ler to ,Ms,-ertain in..re orrctly the returns as to 
 I lie number .)f d.-atlis and the causes of lieatli 
 
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Mr. MLAKK. MiMiiitr in do witli tlio conHH8 ? 
 
 Mr. CARLIXli. f supposH it is an ciuiuii-v 
 having ii'laf ion t.. Hw. (■»i,.-,iis. \„ Mtops have Vefii 
 taken in ix'navd to the uensu.s ; l.ut .Nlr. .FohnHon, 
 rtatiMticiaii, has nent ii eii-eiilar to medical men. ask- 
 iU)> them to furnish iiim with i^iK^h iiifi>nnation as 
 they |H).sse»H with respect to deatlis and eau.se.s of 
 death. 
 
 Mr. ISLAKF.. I 
 
 iiiUHt .say tlii.s : The cen.sim is 
 
 II sidemn operation whicFi oujjiit to he entered upo 
 mid executed a.s a whole, and the inlormation 
 HOUglit, ami eii,|uirie,s mach-, with respect to th(> 
 een.suH, ought to lie autliorised and .sanctioned 
 witli that ohject and aim. 'I'lic i.oir gentleman 
 says that certain infonnation ]■ s heen a.skcMl hy 
 tiiestatLstieian of the Department, ami he supposjs 
 It will have .some relation to the censm. What- 
 ever is going to l)(! done to form a part of that 
 eomyiilation, which is to form our deeennial eeii.sns, 
 ought to he ilone un.ler Order in ( 'ouiicil or de- 
 par, mental regulation, anil with direct reference 
 to the eiMisu.s, ami umler all the sanction and 
 
 irraiigeinent necessary for the procuring of that 
 :;specially accurate information which helongs to 
 nicli a national transaction. 
 
 Air. HLAKt. There may and will lie great 
 ditheully in getting tlie correct amount of the 
 ijtiantity of Imtiicr anrl clioe.se niaimfaeturod in the 
 diHerent farm liouses, hut certainly it would he 
 still more ditfieult to do what the lion. .Minister has 
 as just suggested, that is, to give the total for the 
 parish or county, without getting the retiirn.s from 
 the hou.ses. Von must get the details, in order 
 that you may get tlie totals. My own impression 
 is, that if it IS ^jrojiosed to obtain an account of the 
 strictly doipestic nuuuifa. uire, it will he foi nd to 
 be very vague and far from approximate. 1 
 woidd suggest, while not dissenting from the 
 notion tliattlii.s shouhl be attempted, that there 
 should he made a separate account as to the condi- 
 tioii ot the creameries or factories, for by getting 
 these returns, wo will kno\\ exactly what is pro- 
 <luced. The rest will be to a large extent truess- 
 work. '' 
 
 OTTAWA :-l>ri 
 
 •inted by Brown Ciiamukri.tn, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 
 
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