Greetings all. I hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving weekend and that you had your fill of turkey. I spend a part of the weekend collating Census Petitions to the House of Commons received to date. The totals as I write this are as follows: BC 904 AB 194 SK 159 MB 76 ON 744 QC 148 NB 2 NS 262 ======= Total 2489 Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Territories are conspicuous by their absence of signatures. I hope that this will soon be remedied. In addition to the above signatures for the House of Commons I have almost 300 signatures to send to Muriel for presentation in the Senate. Please keep the petitions coming. If we truly wish to see further Census records of Canada released we must continue to tell our Parliamentarians about those wishes. Two ways of doing this are by writing letters and emails, and by signing petitions. Letters and email are important but we have no way of determining the numbers sent. On the other hand, numbers of signatures on petitions give us something we can point to as an indication of support for access. Keep them coming. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f Permission to forward without notice is granted