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BILL C-272
First Session, Forty-second Parliament,
64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-272
An Act to amend the Statistics Act (fire and emergency response statistics)
FIRST READING, MAY 12, 2016
Mr. Davies
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Statistics Act to require that Statistics Canada collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical information on fire and emergency response.
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1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 
64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-272
An Act to amend the Statistics Act (fire and emergency response statistics)
R.‍S.‍, c. S-19
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1 Section 22 of the Statistics Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (r):
(r.‍1) fire and emergency response, including, for each calendar year:
(i) the total number of fires as well as the monetary losses and number of firefighter and civilian deaths and injuries resulting from those fires,
(ii) the fire death rates for each province,
(iii) the number of fires that were intentionally set as well as the monetary losses and number of firefighter and civilian deaths and injuries resulting from those fires,
(iv) the number of forest fires and number of hectares affected by those fires, and
(v) the number of fire departments, the number of fire and emergency responses per department and the subject matter of response calls;
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons