Greetings All With Canada's Federal election on 27 November 2000 a new Government comes into being. With the dissolution of the previous Government, all outstanding Bills and Motions in the House of Commons and the Senate, including those relating to Historic Census, ceased to exist. The same applies to petitions sent to the previous Government. Petitions from the Canada Census Committee containing signatures in excess of 6000 were presented to the House of Commons and something close to 3000 were sent to the Senate. These petitions, and those from other sources, served their purpose and helped us to reach the point where we were close to having a Government Bill brought down. Unfortunately, the election was called before this happened. Now, more than ever, your support in letters and petitions is required to inform the new Government that we are still here, and still seek public access to Historic Census records. We have a clean slate with the new Government. Those who signed petitions sent to the old Government are free once more to sign petitions to be sent to the new Government. Petitions downloadable from the Post 1901 Census Project website at http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census have been upgraded to Adobe Acrobat PDF files. This should eliminate printing problems experienced with the Word and WordPerfect files previously located there. There are petitions to both the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada, in both French and English, for residents of Canada to sign. There is also a Non-Resident petition of support for those living outside of Canada, but having roots in Canada, to sign. The petition page has been totally revamped. I urge all to download and circulate both petitions, i.e. for the House of Commons and for the Senate. Even though they are worded similarly, because they are directed to different places, both petitions may be signed by the same people. If various Genealogical and Family History Societies prefer to use petitions of their own wording rather than use ours, I urge them to start circulating them now. There are no deadlines for petitions of the Canada Census Committee. They will be sent in periodically when sufficient signatures have been collected to make it worthwhile. Thank you all for your continuing interest and support. Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net Port Coquitlam, BC Keep up to date on Post 1901 Census information at http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census and http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7843/poll.html Download and circulate Post 1901 Census Petitions now from http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census/petition.htm This message has been sent to the Alberta-L, Can-British-Columbia-L, Census-Chat-L, Colchester, Lunen-Links-L, Nova-Scotia-L, Ontario-L, PictouRoots, Roots-L, Watts-L, and Wiltshire-EMI-L mail lists. Permission to forward without notification is granted.