Dear friends: I found out this morning that the House of Commons will not deal with S-13 before they rise for the summer break. As you all know, they made several attempts to get it debated over the last few days, but were unsuccessful. The rest of the agenda is now booked with other bills including campaign finance reform and the ethics package that must get through before the end of the summer. I am extremely disappointed with this delay in our on-going campaign. I urge all members of the CCC to start a new email and letter campaign to their MPs at the beginning of September. There is not much point in writing right now because your letters will be long forgotten by the time the fall rolls around. You should write in the week or two leading up to the resumption of Parliament on September 15th. We have been working hard for almost one solid year now, and we can all use the summer to rest and recharge our batteries. I also want to congratulate Lois Sparling on her renewed attempt to get the courts to rule that Stats Canada must release the 1911 census. She has my 100% support in her endeavour. I have also been really pleased to see how many of you have filed ATI requests asking for the 1911 census. Do keep them coming. I'm sorry that I don't have better news for you, but I promise that as things develop, I will keep you posted. Yours truly, Hon. Lorna Milne Jeff Paul Policy Advisor Office of the Hon. Lorna Milne Ph: (613) 947-9744 Cell: (613) 715-2965

The summer recess is a good time to meet with your local MP to help him or her understand how we use the census and why it is important to us and to Canada that historians, including family historians, have access to the WHOLE census (therefore this opt in/opt out nonsense for the 2006 and later census must go). The foolishness of the extra 20 years of conditional access can also be explained to them. Your local constituency office should set up an appointment for you. You should try to keep this a "feel good" event for your MP so be kind if he or she is too dumb to tell a real privacy issue from a fake or surrogate privacy issue or a privacy red herring ( we should try to coin a good phrase for this concept). Lois Sparling Paul, Jeff: SEN wrote: >Dear friends: > > I found out this morning that the House of Commons will not deal with S-13 before they rise for the summer break. As you all know, they made several attempts to get it debated over the last few days, but were unsuccessful. The rest of the agenda is now booked with other bills including campaign finance reform and the ethics package that must get through before the end of the summer. I am extremely disappointed with this delay in our on-going campaign. > > I urge all members of the CCC to start a new email and letter campaign to their MPs at the beginning of September. There is not much point in writing right now because your letters will be long forgotten by the time the fall rolls around. You should write in the week or two leading up to the resumption of Parliament on September 15th. We have been working hard for almost one solid year now, and we can all use the summer to rest and recharge our batteries. > > I also want to congratulate Lois Sparling on her renewed attempt to get the courts to rule that Stats Canada must release the 1911 census. She has my 100% support in her endeavour. I have also been really pleased to see how many of you have filed ATI requests asking for the 1911 census. Do keep them coming. > > I'm sorry that I don't have better news for you, but I promise that as things develop, I will keep you posted. > >Yours truly, > >Hon. Lorna Milne > > >Jeff Paul >Policy Advisor >Office of the Hon. Lorna Milne >Ph: (613) 947-9744 >Cell: (613) 715-2965 > > > >==== CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN Mailing List ==== >Download Post 1901 Census petitions at > http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/ >en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm > > > >