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 Parrish.C@parl.gc.ca Michel Guimond Guimond.M@parl.gc.ca Jay Hill Hill.J@parl.gc.ca Bill Blaikie Blaikie.B@parl.gc.ca Garry Breitkreuz Breitkreuz.G@parl.gc.ca Marcel Proulx Proulx.M@parl.gc.ca 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 gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm Permission to forward without notice is granted.