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From: "Gordon A. Watts" <>
Subject: [CCC] Re: Three Rejections To Two ATI Requests
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:35:51 -0700
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Hi Gordon

Unless you particularly want to do so, I do not really see a need to send a
third letter of complaint to the Information Commissioner.

I sent a message to Julie in the National Archives suggesting rather than
automatically sending a request to StatCan that she should check first to
see if StatCan had already received a request from the same person, and if
such was the case requests should not be forwarded.

I have not received an acknowledgement to that message. As I sent it about
the time of the big power outage it is possible she did not receive it
Perhaps I should contact her again.

Thanks for your continued support.

Gordon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Berdahl" <>
To: "Gordon A. Watts" <>;
<>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: Three Rejections To Two ATI Requests


Hi Gordon and All,

Do I have a first, or am I missing something? Following is the
sequence of events with respect to my Access to Information Requests
(ATI's) and resulting Complaints regarding release of the 1911 Census:

Letter dated File #
Details

June 2, 2003
I registered my ATI to Statistics Canada.

June 27, 2003 A-02155
StatsCan rejected my ATI.of June 2.

July 14, 2003 A-02155 I
registered my Complaint to the Information Commissioner.

July 22, 2003 34760/001 (StatsCan A-02155) Info. Comm.
acknowledged my Complaint of July 14.





July 19, 2003
I registered my ATI to the National Archives.

July 31, 2003 AH-2003-00126/fk National
Archives rejected my ATI of July 19, indicating they were forwarding
it to StatsCan, and sent me a copy of that forward letter.

August 6, 2003 AH-2003-00126/fk I
registered my Complaint to the Information Commissioner.

August 26, 2003 35214/001 Info.
Comm. acknowledged my Complaint of August 6.


Now this is the interesting part --

September 3, 2003 A-02332
StatsCan rejected my ATI of July 19 that had been forwarded to them by
National Archives. There is no indication that StatsCan sent a copy
of their letter to me to the National Archives.


My question now is --- should I be filing a second Complaint to the
Information Commissioner concerning this latest (second) rejection by
StatsCan, to which I had already received a rejection from National
Archives, filed a Complaint to the Information Commissioner and
received his response (three rejections for two complaints!)?
StatsCan's latest letter advises me that I am entitled to do so.

This is such fun, and I just love paying for this bureaucratic Fed.
Govt. nonsense. And what a waste of trees!

Gordon A. Berdahl



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