Dear Mr. Mills. Thank you for your prompt response to my recent e-mail. I am, of course, disappointed that you declined to give a definitive FOR or AGAINST answer to the specific question asked of you. You are currently shown on our MP Scoreboard as having submitted a non-committal response and thus sitting firmly "on the fence". Unfortunately your present response will not change this. Possibly after the report of the Expert Panel on Access to Historical Census (due by the end of June) has come down you will change your mind and give a definitive FOR response to the question. I would be more than happy to change your "fence" to a "gold tick". In your 12 June 2000 email to Muriel M. Davidson you indicated that "we want to make sure that everything is done within the guidelines of the privacy laws." I would respectfully point out that Regulations attached to the Privacy Act specifically state that information from Census may be released for purposes of research 92 years after collection." As stated in my previous e-mail it is only a policy of Statistics Canada that currently prevents that from happening. It should be obvious from the many thousands of letters and petitions sent to MPs and government officials in the past year that it is the desire of the people that Access to Historic Census 92 years after collection be allowed. I look forward to hearing from you after you have read the report of the Expert Panel. Thank you. Sincerely Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Mills, Dennis - M.P. <Mills.D@parl.gc.ca> To: 'Gordon A. WATTS' <gordon_watts@telus.net> Sent: Friday, 16 June, 2000 8:22 AM Subject: RE: How will you vote? I am in favour of people doing research for family trees, but I also acknowledge those who want information kept private and I believe we need to respect their wishes.