Greetings All I received an email from Statcan this morning that indicated that although my ATI request was refused, the requested documented is required to be released within 90 days of receipt of my request. This regardless of any change in the head of the Ministry or change in Government because of an election. It remains to be seen if that 90 days starts from 18 September, or my original request to Industry Canada, in which case the date starts from 21 August. I will be seeking clarification on this but I suspect it will be the latter date. I also received an email from Senator Lorna Milne giving URLs for the Hansard transcripts of the Committee of the Whole of the Senate with new Privacy Commissioner, George Radwanski. I copy it here for those interested. As the length of it will cause a word wrap to the next line the link will not be clickable. You will have to include the whole link for it to be useable. <<Debates - Issue 80 - October 16, 2000.url>> http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/chambus/senate/deb-e/80db_2000-10 -16-e.htm I have not yet check this out myself but will do so this afternoon. Happy Hunting. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Ronald Patrick" <rpatrick@niagara.com> To: "NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb. com" <NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com>; "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net> Sent: Tuesday, 17 October, 2000 6:22 AM Subject: RE: [LL] Response to ATI Request for Report of Expert Panel With a new privacy Commissioner (Bruce Philips is gone) and a new Minister of Industry (Brian "Captain Canada" Tobin) this morning, it does indeed remain to be seen what now will happen to the Report. In a Senate hearing on TV last night the new Privacy Commissioner was sympathetic to a compromise solution to the release of Census post-1901. I dont know what that means, but Senator Milne was happy with his answer to her question at least. There is also the CBC projection that an election is to be called for Nov 26 or Nov27... ROn -----Original Message----- From: Gordon A. WATTS [mailto:gordon_watts@telus.net] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 11:33 PM To: LUNEN-LINKS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LL] Response to ATI Request for Report of Expert Panel 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. ==== LUNEN-LINKS Mailing List ==== Have you signed a post 1901 census petition or written a letter?