Hello List, I've been lurking, listening. We Canadians write letters and sign petitions. We are a people who trust that our leaders really DO have our interests at heart. We don't really like making a lot of noise unless it's at a hockey game! I'm afraid we are "too nice". If you look at any movement, the most success is when those people desiring change are "seen".and "heard". We must make ourselves visual. It's too easy to set aside a letter or an email. It's a lot harder to ignore a massive crowd of people with banners (and large Canadian Flags?) and articulate speakers. We don't have to become abusive or ill mannered, but we do need to make SOME NOISE and MOVEMENT to attract their attention and then keep it!!! I agree with Gordon that someone is needed in the Ontario area to organize a gathering. I'm way out here in BC too, but I would certainly consider flying out to join the group for a demonstration. It would require a great number of people to get the attention of the media so we could get on the national news. Perhaps once a date was set for bringing genealogists to Ottawa (let's include our brothers and sisters from USA too!) a media blitz could be done. I seem to recall when the trucking industry or farmers have gone to Ottawa in their vehicles, they have let their intent be known way ahead of time to the media. And look how much attention the crowds in Ottawa got after the terrorism of Sept 11th? But there were, as I recall (correct me?) about 50,000 people! An impact is made visually (that's why advertisements work). Personally, I'm hoping to find my grandma on the 1911 census. She never knew how old she was. When she had to get a pension, the government allocated her a year....they couldn't find a birth record for her (the family rumour is that the church where she was baptized burned down the same year, so they went by that). But if I can find her on the 1911 with an age, I'm hoping to veryify that she was born in October 1901 (Grey County Ontario). Perhaps the government paid her more pension that she was entitled to because they didn't check the census -- another good reason to make it more accessible!!!! That's my 2 cents from the west coast...April in BC