Greetings All. This morning I received an email from the Access to Information and Privacy Officer of Statistics Canada giving me advance notice that the Official response to my ATI Request for the Report of the Expert Panel on Access to Historic Census Records was to be mailed today. The response is that my ATI Request is being refused on the basis that John Manley "intends to make the Expert Panel's report available to the public as soon as possible. It will be posted on the Statistics Canada web site; paper copies will also be made available on request." In view of the rumoured Cabinet shuffle, and imminent federal election it remains to be seen if Mr. Manley will be around to make that Report available to the public. Under ATI a request may be refused if the information requested is expected to be published within 90 days after the request is made. That means that we could still wait up to 18 December for the report. If my original ATI request to Industry Canada had been forwarded to Statistics Canada as per the ATI Act, instead of being refused, that 90 day period would expire on 21 November. I have submitted a complaint on the original refusal to the Information Commissioner. While the refusal to submit the Report of the Expert Panel as per my request was not entirely unexpected, on the grounds stated, it was nevertheless disappointing. We hope that the Report will be posted to the Statcan website soon. This afternoon I sent an email to Prime Minister Chretien requesting that he take steps to see the immediate steps to see the Report of the Expert Panel released to the Public. Time will tell. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net Canada Census Committee 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 posted to the Alberta-L, Canada-Census-Campaign-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.