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From: "Gordon A. Watts" <>
Subject: Post 1901 Census - Bill C-312 NON-votable
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:15:47 -0800


Greetings All.

We have today been advised from the office of MP Murray Calder that his
Bill C-312 has been deemed to be non-votable. As a result it will
receive only one hour of debate in the House of Commons and will then be
be dropped from the Order paper. This is hardly worthy of a Bill
regarding an issue which has received in excess of 40,000 signatures
seeking support for public access to Post 1901 Census Records.

This news has been a great disappointment. We had hoped that C-312
would be considered votable and would at least receive the three hours
debate alloted to votable Private Member Bills.

Members of the sub-committee of the House Standing Committee on
Procedure and House Affairs that made this decision were as follows:

Carolyn Parrish
Michel Guimond
Jay Hill
Bill Blaikie
Garry Breitkreuz
Marcel Proulx

Email addresses have been provided for those who might be inclined to
send an email to the members of this sub-committee to express their
disappointment with their decision. I for one will be sending such a
message.

I also received word today that the Senate Standing Committee on Social
Affairs, Science and Technology will be meeting 6 December 2001 for
clause-by-clause consideration of Bill S-12 - An Act to amend the
Statistics Act and the National Archives of Canada Act (census records).
Following the clause-by-clause consideration, S-12 will be returned to
the Senate for Report stage.

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

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