Greetings All. After being away from the house since early this morning I came home to an email message from the Office of Senator Lorna Milne. The purpose of the message was to advise that the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology has tentatively scheduled hearings on Senator Milne's Bill S-12 for either 19 or 20 September 2001. Senator Milne has asked that I appear before the Committee to testify in support of Bill S-12. Bill S-12 is identical to MP Murray Calder's Bill C-312 and, if passed by the Senate and the House of Commons without significant change, would satisfy our concerns for public access to Post 1901 Census Records. It expressly authorizes the transfer of all census records from Statistics Canada to the National Archives of Canada for permanent safekeeping. It gives access to the records to genealogists and other researchers 92 years after the census, subject to a privacy right it creates that allows individuals to object to the disclosure of personal information in the census records. For those interested in reading it, there is a link to Bill S-12 provided on the 'Other Sites' page of the Post 1901 Census Project website located at the URL following my signature. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en francais http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm Permission to forward without notice is granted.