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    1. [CCC-L] Re: Paul Steckle
    2. Gordon A. WATTS
    3. Greetings All I was roused out of a sound (?) sleep this morning with a phone call from Greg, an administrative assistant for Paul Steckle. We had an interesting conversation for about 25 minutes in which he made a number of points. I think the most important thing that came out the conversation was that while Mr. Steckle might be prepared to vote in favour of a Bill to obtain access to Historic Census, he was not prepared to state that he would vote for any and all Bills or Motions regarding Census that might come up in the future. He was not going to state he would support any and all future Bills or Motions without being aware of the wording and content of them. I suspect that many MPs might be of similar mind and in asking MPs for support you might want to consider wording the question to ask if they would support specific Bills and Motions, i.e. C-484, M-160, S-15. When we first started campaigning we had no specific Bills or Motions to cite, but now we do. One thing that Greg stated was a concern of Mr. Steckle was the possibility of a precedent being set that could be used in a detrimental manner for something unrelated to our concerns and he would want to study any proposed Bill or Motion to ensure that this would not be a problem. Greg indicated that Mr. Steckle thought Jason Kenney's Motion M-160 was a good motion and that he would likely vote in favour of it. Based on my conversation this morning with Greg, I am inclined to give Mr. Steckle a gold tick on the Scoreboard. Happy Hunting. Gordon

    06/13/2000 03:46:41