Hi Millie. You raise a question that many of us would like the answer to. There is an old saying that implies that what action is taken by someone depends upon whose ox is being gored. It is our belief that in refusing to turn control of historic Census records over to the National Archivist Ivan Fellegi does so in violation of the Privacy Act and Regulation 6(d) attached thereto. The problem is trying to get anyone in the government to direct him to obey the law, or charge him with not doing so. Short of the government taking action in this, the second legal action initiated by Lois Sparling is intended to force our Chief Statistician to obey the law. We have hopes that following complaints to the Information Commissioner regarding the refusal of Statistics Canada to release the 1911 records he will see fit to join with us in our legal action. Sometime prior to the October 24 announcement that the government would be bringing down legislation to deal with our concerns (we thought) I sent a message to Industry Minister Allan Rock charging him with directing the Chief Statistician to obey the law and release the 1906 records to the National Archivist. I suggested to Mr. Rock that no government bureaucrat -- no matter how highly placed -- is above the laws of Canada. I never received the courtesy of a response or acknowledgement to my letter. It is now time for me to write a similar letter charging Mr. Rock, as Minister responsible for Statistics Canada, to direct Ivan Fellegi to obey the laws of Canada, and release records of the 1911 Census of Canada to the National Archivist. This time my letter will be copied to Justice Canada and the Attorney General of Canada. Thank you for the reminder. Happy Hunting. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Thompson" <[email protected]> To: "Gordon A. Watts" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:37 AM Subject: Re: [CCC] Bill S-13 Dear Gordon This sounds incredibly nieve, I know, but if I break the law, I am fined and perhaps go to jail and I must still obey said law... Now, as I understand, this questionable gentleman in Ottawa has broken an existing law and put his own interpretation to it. And is going merrily on his way.----- Something very wrong with this picture. Millie