----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net> To: "Canada Census Campaign" <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 1:08 AM Subject: Post 1901 Census - Help needed for Fax blitz Greetings All. A couple of years ago we conducted a short, concentrated effort by fax machine to bring the Post 1901 Census issue to the attention of then Industry Minister Alan Rock. It did not then give us the immediate public access we sought to Historic Census records, but it did get his attention. We hope that in the next few days we can duplicate the success of that effort, but this time by faxing the Prime Minister, Minister of Industry, Minister of Canadian Heritage, and all House and Party leaders. If you have a fax machine at your disposal you can help to encourage the rapid passage of Bill S-18 in the House of Commons. Your message should be short and to the point, entailing no more than a single page. It must be sent separately to the individuals listed above, and your own Member of Parliament. For those who would entail long distance charges, rates are normally lower in the evenings, and possibly even lower after midnight. I copy below the message that I myself will be faxing. I have printed it off in larger than normal font size, in this case 16 point, to make it stand out. Feel free to use the wording here for your message. Make sure to date it, and include your full name, mailing address, and telephone number as I have done here. Otherwise your fax will likely be ignored. -------------------------------- 30 April 2005 To: Prime Minister Paul Martin Industry Minister David Emerson Minister of Canadian Heritage Liza Frulla All House and Party leaders All Members of Parliament Greetings We urge all House and Party leaders, and all Members of Parliament, to please join together to expedite passage of Bill S-18, An Act to amend the Statistics Act, by foregoing Committee and Report stages. We seek your cooperation to immediately pass Second and Third Readings of this Bill in a single day. We are concerned that this Bill must be passed and given Royal Assent prior to the possibility of an election being forced upon us. An estimated 7.5 million genealogists and historians (voters) in Canada wish to spend their summer, and beyond, researching the long overdue records of the 1911 Census of Canada, rather than having to continue the fight to see them released. Thank you. Gordon A. Watts Co-chair, Canada Census Committee 1455 Delia Drive Port Coquitlam, BC, V3C 2V9 Tel: 604-942-6889 Cel: 604-312-7447 Fax: 604-942-6843 ------------------------------ Fax numbers for the Prime Minister, Industry Minister, Heritage Minister, House leaders and Party leaders are as follows: Where more than one number is shown the first number shown is their personal office fax, while the second number is their departmental fax number where available. In some cases they are one and the same, or only one fax number has been found for them. Prime Minister Paul Martin (613) 941-6900 Tony Valeri - Government House Leader (613) 992-7764 - Department fax (613) 952-4940 David Emerson - Minister of Industry (613) 943-0219 - Department fax (613) 992-0302 Liza Frulla - Minister of Canadian Heritage (613) 995-6404 - Department fax (819) 994-1267 Stephen Harper - Leader of Opposition (Conservative) (613) 947-0310 Jay Hill - Opposition House Leader (Conservative) (613) 947-4527 Jack Layton - NDP Leader (613) 995-4565 Libbie Davies - NDP House Leader (613) 995-7412 Gilles Duceppe - Bloc Quebecios Leader (613) 954 2121 Michel Gauthier - Bloc Quebecios House Leader (613) 992-9954 Parliament resumes sitting on Monday 2 May. To make this effort effective, it is important that your faxes be sent in the next couple of days. Should you experience a problem connecting with the receiving fax machine it probably means that it has run out of paper. Try again the next day to give staff a chance to replentish the paper. Thank you all for your support. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net 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