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From: "Muriel M. Davidson" <>
Subject: [Can-Ont-Carleton] Post 1901 Census - Website Updates & more
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:55:04 -0500

Greetings All.

FYI. On Friday 21 March 2003 the Post 1901 Census Project website, at
the URL following my signature, achieved 300,000 hits since 27 April
1999. While many of those hits will be repeat visits from interested
parties, this figure shows the interest in the Post 1901 Census issue.
As I write this, the total number of hits, on the home page only, is
300,128.

The MP and Senator Scoreboards have just been updated, and are current
with the information that I have been provided by those who have sent me
information. If you have correspondence from any MPs and Senators that
would change the positions shown for them on the Scoreboards, please
forward it to me. [Check Alberta's Senate Scoreboard -- Muriel]

As reported the other day, the Senate Committee hearings regarding Bill
S-13 have been delayed until 9 April. Anyone planning on making a
submission to the Committee should do so now. Time is running out.
Contact information is available on the Post 1901 Census Project
website.

Muriel and I continue to accept Census petitions and will do so until
the issue is settled. Petitions have served their purpose and have
accomplished what we sought with them. We feel efforts now should be
directed first to submissions and letters to members of the Senate
Committee deliberating Bill S-13, and secondly to contacting the
remaining Senators who will shortly be debating S-13 during third
reading in the Senate. Your submissions and letters should advise that
the people of Canada seek unrestricted access to Historic Census
records, without the various strings and conditions that certain clauses
in Bill S-13 impose, and request amendments to made to reflect the will
of the people. Some personal experiences that demonstrate the
importance of Census records in your own research -- how it has
contributed to the success of that research -- might touch a chord with
some of them, and may demonstrate why we feel unrestricted access is so
important to us.

As I have mentioned several times before, please use your own words in
writing the Senators and MPs. Also, be polite and respectful -- we seek
the support of these people and to berate them for positions that might
oppose your own will not accomplish that support and might very well
turn them in the opposite direction.

Until we see how Bill S-13 reads after Third Reading in the Senate it is
difficult to know specifically what to write in letters to the Members
of Parliament. We should think about that, however, and possibly
prepare our letters to them in advance, being prepared to make
adjustments when Third Reading is completed in the Senate. Once Third
Reading is completed and the Bill is referred to the House of Commons we
believe that it will proceed through the House quite quickly. Our
thoughts are that the government wishes this issue settled before the
summer recess in order to avoid ATI requests for the 1911 Census
records, and subsequent complaints to the Information Commissioner
should such requests be refused by Statistics Canada.
[Also the actual date of release should be June, 2003!]
Happy Hunting.

Gordon A. Watts
Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, BC

http://globalgenealogy.com/Census
en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm




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