Gordon, Muriel and other listers, I have my Freedom of Information Form filled out and ready for mailing June 2nd. I'll spend the 5 dollars and skip a fast food meal! I personally have come to believe that this Bill S-13 is a disaster. I'm not blaming anyone; we all have different views. Have read the Hansard excerpt...how discouraging! I think we are stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm sending in my request. As for this new History Museum of Jean Chretien's, I agree that it is just going to be a monument to himself...I guess he can't have a presidential library, so this will do? Unless there is information forthcoming that this museum will provide access to the history of the working classes of this country(which is mostly found in census), it appears that it is going to be just a storage place for documents to do with politicians. This country needs political reform now, and we sure aren't going to get it under any liberal government, no matter who leads it. In BC we really have no representation in Ottawa (my apologies to Chuck Strahl) because we have 6(I stand to be corrected) liberal MP's and they are puppets of Mr. Chretien. Our country is ruled by Ontario and Quebec, and they have voted in the Liberal MP's. Are all those genealogists in Ontario and Quebec writing letters? I encourage all those Ontario and Quebec voters to write their MP's and to also submit a request for Freedom of Information to access the 1911 census. I think our best bet was to have gone to the courts with this, is it really too late? Just some thoughts.... April in BC

April. When the 1906 records were released and put online, it killed our legal action. We cannot proceed to the courts for something that has not yet happened -- only for something that has happened, or for something that should have happened that did not. That is the reason for making an Access to Information (not Freedom of Information) request. Until our requests for access to the 1911 records is refused, we do not have any cause for an action in the courts. The reason for making a complaint to the Information Commissioner regarding the refusal to grant access to the 1911 records is to get a step closer to seeing a court action take place. The Information Commissioner was prepared to go to court for the 1906 records -- we expect because the 1911 Census was conducted under the same legislation and similar Instructions to Enumerators as was the 1906, the Information Commissioner should likely take the same position for the 1911. Happy Hunting Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "April Bell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: [CCC] Freedom of Information Request Gordon, Muriel and other listers, I have my Freedom of Information Form filled out and ready for mailing June 2nd. I'll spend the 5 dollars and skip a fast food meal! I personally have come to believe that this Bill S-13 is a disaster. I'm not blaming anyone; we all have different views. Have read the Hansard excerpt...how discouraging! I think we are stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm sending in my request. As for this new History Museum of Jean Chretien's, I agree that it is just going to be a monument to himself...I guess he can't have a presidential library, so this will do? Unless there is information forthcoming that this museum will provide access to the history of the working classes of this country(which is mostly found in census), it appears that it is going to be just a storage place for documents to do with politicians. This country needs political reform now, and we sure aren't going to get it under any liberal government, no matter who leads it. In BC we really have no representation in Ottawa (my apologies to Chuck Strahl) because we have 6(I stand to be corrected) liberal MP's and they are puppets of Mr. Chretien. Our country is ruled by Ontario and Quebec, and they have voted in the Liberal MP's. Are all those genealogists in Ontario and Quebec writing letters? I encourage all those Ontario and Quebec voters to write their MP's and to also submit a request for Freedom of Information to access the 1911 census. I think our best bet was to have gone to the courts with this, is it really too late? Just some thoughts.... April in BC ==== CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN Mailing List ==== How to unsubscribe from Mail Mode. Send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the Subject line and body of the message) the command -- unsubscribe -- and no additional text.