Hi Mel. Thank you for your message. If you actually got a response from Mr. Phillips himself you have accomplished more than most of us. Messages from myself, Muriel Davidson, and others have resulted in our being passed on to an assistant, Mark Foran, who was very adept at side-stepping specific questions addressed to Mr. Phillips. While the replies to us were also polite they did little to address the concerns stated in our letters. If you get any responses from MPs that actually answer how they would vote on a Bill to release Census records I would be interested in knowing about them. Congratulations on your response from Mr. Phillips, and thanks for your interest and support. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: Melville R. Andress <mandress@uniserve.com> To: Gordon A. WATTS <gordon_watts@telus.net> Sent: Thursday, 04 May, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [CCC-L] List Rules Greetings: My 'snail mail bag' is starting to flow in reply to my 100% mailing to Liberal M.P's. The answering format seems to fall into the category, "Your comments are being forwarded to: (a) your constituency M.P. (b) The Hon. Minister Manley, (c) Dr. Pamela White, Secretariat Expert Panel." I also received a very courteous letter from Bruce Phillips, Privacy Commissioner of Canada along with his submission of Feb 9, 2000 to Expert Panel. In his letter to me, he respectfully disagreed with my statement that by submitting to Statistics Canada proof of Death was sufficient protection of Privacy to the deceased. His Email Address: <bphillips@privcom.gc.ca> Sincerely, Mel R. Andress. -----Original Message----- From: Gordon A. WATTS [mailto:gordon_watts@telus.net] Sent: 05/03/ 2000 10:58 PM To: CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CCC-L] List Rules Greetings All. On starting the CCC list one year ago I announced that there would be only two rules - no personal queries, and no flames. To date this has worked very well and I have no intention of adding any more rules. Every so often on mail lists , however, there is one lister whose sole purpose of subscribing seems to be to disrupt the list and make irritating postings. We have recently had one such lister. This morning I took the steps to manually unsubscribe this lister who obviously had no desire to be a productive participant, and who in fact sent messages to at least two listers asking them to stop sending him their postings. On receiving the notice that he had been unsubscribed his response, rather than reading and accepting it, hit REPLY, only changing the subject line to "Stop sending me this bull". I will not mention his name at this time as you will all know who he is -- his sole contribution has been to take received postings and return them to the list using REPLY with only the words "Kindest Regards" followed by his name and email address added to the original posting. The purpose was obviously to irritate and annoy. In the past several days this individual was twice sent polite messages informing him how to unsubscribe if that was his desire. I received no responses to these messages but he continued to send his "Kindest Regards" posting replies to the list. Other listers have complained and indicated they would withdraw from the list if these replies were to continue. I therefore manually unsubscribed this individual. I sincerely hope that this action will never again be found necessary. All of us have a common reason for being here -- we desire to see continuing access to historic census records a reasonable period of time after collection. No one is here unless they themselves took the necessary steps to subscribe to the list. No one is forced to remain subscribed against their wishes. Every lister, on subscribing, is sent the information on how to unsubscribe. If that information is lost it is a simple matter to find out how to do it. Enough said. Back to the business for which the list was set up. Your comments and questions relating to Post 1901 Census issues are welcome. Let us hear from you. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net Port Coquitlam, BC ICQ # 9183352 Keep up to date on Post 1901 Census information at http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census and http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7843/poll.html Download and circulate Post 1901 Census Petitions now from http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census/petition.htm