[Forwarded by [email protected] -- please PRINT. Part 1 was posted last evening -- important information] Greetings All. Christmas is over and we are now into the new year -- 2002. Time to get back to work if we wish to see release of Post-1901 census records.. The next Town Hall meetings are coming up on 7, 9, and 11 January in Halifax, Toronto, and Montreal respectively. Please advise me of any who have been accepted as participants or will be in attendance. The full schedule of Town Hall meetings, and information regarding how to register as a speaker or to attend as part of the audience, is at the Environics Research Group website at http://erg.environics.net/ Reports from the Ottawa meetings denote it is obvious that Statistics Canada has directed Environics to be on the lookout for certain things. Presentations to the Town Hall meetings should include wording that would show that participation in Census and trust in Statistics Canada would increase with knowledge of eventual release of Census records. Chief Statistician Dr. Ivan Fellegi has changed the focus of his attack on our efforts from the strictly legal (because he knows he would lose), to one of a fear of lessening the integrity of the statistical agency. He still insists on promoting the non-existent 'PROMISE' of never-ending confidentiality even though he has been unable to produce any documented evidence of it. Our counter to their insistence there is a 'promise' is to ask them to produce evidence of it. The legislation quoted by them certainly does not contain any 'promise' that confidentiality of Census will never end. Further reports of the Ottawa Town Hall meeting and a critique of Dr. Ivan Fellegi's presentation to the Senate Committee is in my column at http://globalgazette.net/gazce/gazce75.htm Please keep us up to date on what happens at these meetings. Gordon A. Watts [email protected] Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index.htm en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm [Part 3 -- FOCUS GROUPS -- to follow -- Print and Save -- Muriel]