To all:- CANADIAN Petitions, in either French or English, are needed for both the Senate and the House of Commons. Identically worded Private Member's Bills will be presented "as soon as possible", by Senator Lorna Milne and Murray Calder, MP. The old numbers of S-15 and C-484 have been removed, and new numbers will be assigned. The CANADIAN petitions are needed to back our request and desire for release of the Post-1901 Canadian census records. POSTAGE will be going up January 1 by one cent -- five cents to United States -- so now is the time to save pennies by mailing petitions before January 1, 2001. The front page of the petitions has been changed just a bit, and Gordon Watts will change the PDF copies as soon as he gets back home. This will not really matter, as in every volunteer group, members are often changing -- this front page is not the important one(s). BE PREPARED and have copies of both House of Commons and Senate petitions ready for signing - a person may sign both. PLEASE do not re-number the 1 to 25 on the second page -- for example: If one has five sheets of 25s, that would equal 125 signatures, plus 8 from the first few signature lines -- total of 133. [We do not know how "sticky" the scrutineers, or whatever, will be]. Senator Lorna Milne wishes all a very Merry Christmas and is looking forward to a safe and swift passage of her Private Member's Bill. Muriel M. Davidson <davidson3542@home.com> Canada Census Committee