Greetings All. With the Holiday Season over for another year we hope that everyone managed to have a great time, and if travelling arrived home safe and secure. A few days ago, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that Parliament was to resume sitting at 3:00 PM, Monday 2 February. At the same time he indicated that some unfinished business from the previous Session would be brought forward to the new Session. While a number of specific Bills were noted, there was no indication as yet that Bill S-13 would be one of those brought forward. Time will tell if that will happen. In the meantime, we now have another opportunity to remind our Parliamentary representatives what we seek regarding access to Historic Census records. Remind them that what we seek is the same unrestricted access that we already have for 240 years of records up to and including those for 1906. This afternoon I called Dan O'Donnell, the investigator in the Information Commissioner's office assigned to our complaints re: Statistics Canada. In response to my query he indicated that he felt the Information Commissioner would give his response to our complaints in about six weeks. Mr. O'Donnell was unable to elaborate further, or give any indication about what he believed the response of the Information Commissioner would be. Our legal action continues. In December, Lois Sparling requested a date for a hearing in our action and advised the Federal Court of those dates in the next three months that she would not be available to attend. At the time of her request the government lawyers had not yet advised of the dates they would not be available. Even though the Courts request information regarding unavailability during the following three months, Lois thinks it unlikely that we will receive a hearing date within that timeframe. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm