Many thanks, Betty!! Unless Gordon did not keep an audio tape of his interview, what has been printed could be entirely out of context. Newspapers edit copy so the gist of the article can be published, whereas even one left-out word could change the meaning of a paragraph. Just a comment from The Other Half -- working with newspapers for more than 50 years!! Let's move on to other topics -- use our time to check and see IF our Members of Parliament and Senators are fully in agreement the 1911 census be released IMMEDIATELY. Should one check the Automated Genealogy 1901 index, there is nothing there one could use for identity theft:- misspelled surnames; changes of names of places; plus other factors -- the 1911 will be no different -- except we will hopefully find more of our missing ancestors. YES -- My Senator and Member of Parliament agree to census release [Senator Lorna Milne and Colleen Beaunier, MP] Muriel M. Davidson muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca ==================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Malone" <bmalone@ameritech.net> To: <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: RE: [CCC] Bella Online Article With due respect to Jeff Paul, political parties try to appear to be all things to all people & thus will allow a minority faction to be visible & noisy about a cause in which they ardently believe, knowing who has the votes. They want the public to think real debate is occurring. That way, they avoid the ire of supporters of that cause. The "privacy issue" is specious, since 92-year-old census data is useless for identity theft or whatever. The only people for whom census data has value are the families & historians. The US releases its census data 20 years earlier than Canada & has never had a "privacy issue." There is no justification for delaying release of Canadian census data even the current 92 years. The goal should be to release it as soon as practicable, not as late as possible. If the Liberal Party was really interested in release of the census records, it would direct Fellegi to turn the records over to the Archivist, as provided by law & practiced without problem, until his intervention. Betty St. Charles, IL -----Original Message----- From: Paul, Jeff: SEN [mailto:PAULJ@SEN.PARL.GC.CA] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:27 AM To: CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [CCC] Bella Online Article I would like to make a point here that I think is really important. There seems to be a tendency here to separate Senator Milne from the governing party. They are one and the same thing. If the Liberal Party was genuinely against this movement, Senator Milne would have been shut down a long time ago. The fact of the matter is that over 99% of Liberals support our cause and are just figuring out how to balance the privacy issues that inherently go along with it.