----- Original Message ----- From: "leonard baillie" <bailliel@home.com> To: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net> Sent: Friday, 22 September, 2000 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [CCC-L] Letter to Ottawa Citizen If some of these Members of Parliament whom we have voted them in office because they say they are going to do this & that for the people & country. Then they get in office & forget about their promises & the people. If they were put in our places where they did not know who their gparents, ggparents or even better their birth parents were or if they even had any birth brothers or sisters. I think they would be different. You know most of us including myself I am doing this for health reasons. When you get to around the age 50 & the grandchildren start coming or maybe your self or one of your own children get some illness, then you start to think & it is about time you started to find some thing about your ancestry, your birth family. It is just impossible. Phyllis from Calgary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net> To: <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 5:43 PM Subject: [CCC-L] Letter to Ottawa Citizen > Greetings All. > > FYI > > Gordon > ============================ > Editor, Ottawa Citizen > > Dear Sir: > > I read with great interest today's article by Jim Bronskill (OC 22 > September 2000 - Panel recommends census data be public). It is > indeed welcome news to many thousands of Canadians seeking access to > Historic Census in order to find their ancestry. > > Many welcomed Mr. Radwanski's appointment as interim Privacy > Commissioner. It would appear, however, that he is following > closely in former Privacy Commissioner Bruce Phillips' footsteps in > referring to "promises of confidentiality" and "undertakings" that > do not exist. Several months of intensive research by myself, and > others, have failed to find any evidence that such "promises" or > "guarantees" of never ending confidentiality of Census were ever > made. > > Statistics Canada, and former Privacy Commissioner Bruce Phillips > have been asked several times to produce documentary evidence of > their much touted "promise" and "guarantee" of confidentiality in > perpetuity. They have been asked to prove me wrong in stating "The > Promise does not Exist". To date they have been unable to do so. > It is unfortunate that our elected representatives and government > bureaucrats continue to disseminate information for which there is > no documented evidence. > > Industry Minister John Manley, despite many requests, continues to > hold on to the Report of the Expert Panel on Access to Historic > Census. We call on him to immediately release that Report to the > Public. > > Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net > Canada Census Committee > >