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From: "Gordon A. Watts" <>
Subject: Re: [CCC] Senator
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:01:13 -0700
References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030902090843.00b311e0@mail.abccom.bc.ca>


Hi Bonnie.

The Information Commissioner is an independent ombudsman appointed by
Parliament. As such he reports directly to Parliament rather to the
government.

Information Commissioner John Reid is supportive of our efforts to
obtain unrestricted access to all Census records. As such, I do not
believe his office would be responsible for any stalling or unnecesary
delays. Ivan Fellegi, on the other hand, opposes our efforts and I can
see him stalling things in any way that he can.

Gordon

----- Original Message -----
From: "bonnie" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [CCC] Senator


Hi
It is probably because they have been ordered to stall, and give the
gob't
time to get the legislation through first.
Our only hope now is that Felligi retires. And he will not.
Lois
How are you coming? You did it once, you can do it agian.
Bonnie
At 09:52 AM 9/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Gordon,
>
>After posting my previous message I had a feeling
>you might mention again taking things out of
>context etc.! :)
>
>Thank you for the information regarding the
>Senator. I do understand that she wears two hats,
>one as a genealogist the other as a Senator. It's
>unfortunate one had to lose out over the other.
>
>One thing that is still nagging at me is my
>conversation with Dan O'Donnell from the
>Information Commissioner's office and his comment
>that it could be 3 to 6 months, or longer, before
>their office takes care of the current complaint.
>I know there is a process involved (he never
>explained what it was) but I can't accept it
>should take that long when all the groundwork has
>been done already. When they finally moved on the
>1906 matter that suggested the case was good and
>had merit. If the 1911 is virtually the same why
>would they wait so long and risk losing the
>window of opportunity available now? What is it
>they have to do that will take up to six months
>or more? Is it worth leaning on them to speed
>things up?
>
>Bye for now,
>
>Joe
>
>
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