YES He said it right on POLITICAL HISTORY ! ! ! I notice he did not mention the settlers of Canada, the ancestors of the 1600's who endured untold hard ships. As a descendant of many of those people this is the ultimate insult. What do we care about his political escapades? I want to find my family! ! My grandmother left Canada to marry my grandfather in the US, leaving behind 9 siblings. I have thousands of cousins, and they have been counted. Still there is some unaccounted for. Without the census we cannot find where they have moved to. I have a cousin who wrote a wonderful book about the ones he spent years locating. What a joy it has been to meet this extended family. However, there are gaps. The census would help us to find these people. I grew up thinking of Canada as my second home; home away from home, where a person is able to retreat to refresh and renew the tired spirit. Civic history - - - does this include knowing where our ancestors came from, where they lived, what they did? This is an outrage. Let Chretien raise donations for his posterity, but do not tax the people for a non essential expense. The outraged tax payers need to let it be known that this is not acceptable use of tax payers' money. The government does not have any money. The money is that of its citizens. Several hundred years ago we rose up in revolt time to do so again. Barbara Marrs Idaho USA -----Original Message----- From: Tom G. & Rita Offer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CCC] PM's Legacy Sounds as if Jean Chretien wants to build a memorial to himself. This money would be better used in the Health Care System. We DON'T need another museum!!!!!!!! Rita Ian Holmes wrote: > This just announced: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > New museum highlights Canadian history > To cost $90M and be built over five years > > Monday, May 26, 2003 > OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced plans Monday for a > major new museum in the country's capital dedicated to political and > civic history. > > The Canadian History Centre, which will cost $90 million over five > years, will be housed in the city's former railway station, which has > been used as a government conference centre in recent years. > > "Our political history is a rich one that needs to be told," Chretien > said in announcing the project. "The Canada of today was determined by > the will of its people and by the vision of the leaders they chose to > represent them." > > He said the centre will make political history more accessible by > arranging travelling exhibits, as well as using the Internet. > > It will draw on the resources of the National Library and the Public > Archives of Canada, as well as other museums and collections. > > The museum will also highlight the important roles that aboriginals, > settlers and immigrants played in creating and transforming the country. > > It is expected the project will cost about $90 million, including $40 > million for renovations to the building, which was built between 1909 > and 1912. > > The centre joins the capital's other major museums, which include the > Museum of Civilization, the Canadian War Museum, the Canadian Museum of > Nature, the Canadian Aviation Museum and the Canadian Science and > Technology Museum. > C Copyright 2003 The Canadian Press > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > I makes me sick to my stomach. > > While we, the ordinary people, are working so hard to persuade the > politicians to make our history available to us 92 years after it was > recorded, they go ahead and spent OUR money to distribute our rich > political history. > > Where is the justice in this country? > > Ian Holmes > > ==== 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. ==== 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.

You have to understand the mind of this kind of politician. They really do believe that the peoples will is expressed through their actions. That they represent what the people would want, if only they really knew what was going on. Of course they can not believe that they are preventing the people from knowing the things the people should know. I love it, $90,000,000.00 to tell the people how wonderful their political leaders have been. At the same time, the government is working very hard to deny Canadians, and descendants of Canadians access to their families past. Yes indeed, lets tell people how grand the politicos are, but you can't learn about your grandparents. Isn't politics wonderful? ===== Lynton (Bill) Stewart A former dual Canadian and U.S. Citizen, who is not allowed to resume my Canadian Citizenship, because I was born before 1947. My younger siblings, born after 1947, are allowed to resume their Canadian Citizenship. Exactly the same circumstances, except for when we were born. To quote a Canadian Columnist, "if you were born in Canada, or your parents were Canadian, then you are a Canadian".