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From: "Gordon A. Watts" <>
Subject: Re: [CCC] Bill S-18 second reading proposal in House of Commons
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:45:55 -0700
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Greetings All.

My thanks to Leland for forwarding the Hansard extract of the House of
Commons where Bill S-18 is at least mentioned as being considered. I
note however, on the Projected Order of Business for the House that has
been posted this morning, that Bill S-18 does not appear for the first
four days next week. The only items posted so far for these days are
Private Member Bills. That could yet change and I will be checking
daily for this.

It is important that we continue to encourage House and Party leaders,
and our own MPs, to fast-track Bill S-18 by foregoing the Committee and
Report stages, and by having Second and Third Readings of the Bill in a
single day.

Remind them that there are currently 210 Members of Parliament that have
publicly expressed support for access to Historic Census Records,
including all House leaders and three of four Party leaders. Bill S-18
is a non-partisan Bill, transcending Party lines, and when passed into
law will end more than twenty years of contention over public access of
Historic Census records.

Happy Hunting.

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

http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census
en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

Permission to forward without notice is granted

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From: "Leland Harvie" <>
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 6:56 AM
Subject: [CCC] Bill S-18 second reading proposal in House of Commons


38th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION
EDITED HANSARD . NUMBER 092

CONTENTS
Thursday, May 5, 2005

Mr. Jay Hill (Prince George-Peace River, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I would be
very interested in
hearing, not only from the government House leader as to the agenda that
he has planned for the
remainder of this week and on into the next week, but specifically when
he intends to give any of the
opposition members an opposition supply day; when he intends to bring in
his budget, not just to
bring it in and debate it ad nauseam, but to actually have the courage
to put it to a vote to check on
the confidence of the House; and, if he intends to call an election, if
he could enlighten us as to when
he intends to do that.

Hon. Tony Valeri (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons,
Lib.): Mr. Speaker, for the rest of today, tomorrow and early next week
the order of business will be the consideration of the Senate amendments
to Bill C-12, the quarantine legislation; followed by third readings of
Bill C-9 respecting economic development in Quebec; Bill C-23, the human
resources bill; Bill C-22, the
social development bill; and Bill C-26, the border services bill.

We would then consider second reading of Bill C-45, the veterans bill;
and then Bill S-18, the
census bill.

Tomorrow the government will introduce a companion bill to the budget
implementation bill. We
hope to debate second reading of this bill by Tuesday or Wednesday of
next week.

We will then also resume consideration of Bill C-43 which is the budget
implementation bill.

To assist members in their planning as well, I wish to inform the House
that on the evening of
May 18 the House will go into a committee of the whole on the
citizenship and immigration estimates, and on the evening of May 31 on
the social development estimates.

My hon. colleague across the way asked about opposition days. As the
rules provide and call for,
six opposition days are required before the end of June. Certainly our
focus will be on moving the
budget implementation bill forward. I would expect that we would do
that.

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