as a dyed in the wool cynic..lets hope mr. day means honest open two way conversation. when i tell my dog to go lay down..i'm communicating. roz -----Original Message----- From: Gordon A. WATTS [SMTP:gordon_watts@telus.net] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:41 AM To: Roz Griston; CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Communication Hi Roz. It remains to be seen as to whether or not Stockwell Day lives up to his quote about increasing communications. Time will tell on this. So far we have had no response from him on questions regarding Post 1901 Census. John Williams obviously does not believe in communicating with the people. He might do well to take a lesson from Ken Epp from whom I had the following message waiting for me this morning, responding to the message I sent him last night. ====================== Friday, September 22, 2000 8:11 am Ottawa Mr Watts: Thanks for taking the time to respond so fully to me. I appreciate that. And thanks for the encouragement vis-a-vis "representation" as well. I am committed to that, and it is very good to be affirmed in that position. Thanks for the attachments. I will have my assistant print them for me, and it will give me some much-needed (!) airplane reading. Sincerely, Ken Epp, MP Elk Island ========================= It is refreshing to receive a speedy response from a Member of Parliament - especially one that is not my own. It is unfortunate that not more of our elected representative feel this way. If they did, we would have a Scoreboard with no blue question marks indicating no response from our MPs. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roz Griston" <r_griston@dccnet.com> To: <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, 22 September, 2000 8:45 AM Subject: RE: [CCC-L] Re: How will you vote? i wouldn't count on stockwell day doing any great and sincere communicating. he announced he will not partake in the media scrums outside the house. that he will communicate only by press release. this to me indicates the man does not think on his feet and that his politics and personna are pure propaganda machine. very slick. i wonder how well he is connected with the owners of our national newspapers. if he's well connected we will see his press releases get in the news..if not..the editors/journalists will just scoff at him.. roz