Greetings All. I received the following email from the office of Murray Calder this morning. While most of it repeats the excerpt from Hansard that I posted a couple of days ago, it does confirm that his bill mirrors that of Senator Lorna Milne's Bill S-15. Now to encourage John Manley to accept these Bills as government Bills so that they have a reasonable chance of being passed and put into law. Happy Hunting. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: Calder, Murray - M.P. <Calder.M@parl.gc.ca> To: 'Muriel M. Davidson' <davidson3542@home.com>; Lorna Milne : SEN <milnel@sen.parl.gc.ca> <lmilne@sympatico.ca>; 'Gordon A. WATTS' <gordon_watts@telus.net> Sent: Monday, 05 June, 2000 7:05 AM Subject: Census bill introduced June 2, 2000 On Friday, Murray introduced the Private Member's Bill to permit the public release of post-1901 census records. The Bill is a replica of the Bill that Senator Lorna Milne has introduced in the Senate. The following is the text of the introduction. STATISTICS ACT Mr. Murray Calder (Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, Lib.) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-484, an act to amend the Statistics Act and the National Archives of Canada Act (census records). He said: Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Perth-Middlesex for his support in seconding my bill. I am pleased to introduce a bill to allow the public release of post-1901 census records. The intent of the bill is to amend the Statistics Act and the National Archives of Canada Act to allow for the transfer of census records from Statistics Canada to the National Archives of Canada where the records would be released to the public subject to the Privacy Act. The bill is a reasonable compromise. Canadians would have an opportunity to review the census returns 92 years after the census was taken, providing an individual does not provide a written objection to the release of his or her records within that timeframe. The bill finds a balance which ensures confidentiality while it maintains access for genealogists, historians and medical researchers. The census returns are a valuable link to our family heritage, community history and telling about Canada's collective past and present. I join with genealogists worldwide in saying that the only true picture of the lives of our ancestors lies within Canada's census records. I hope hon. members will support it. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)