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From: "Gordon A. Watts" <>
Subject: Post 1901 Census -- S-18 hearings
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:18:32 -0700


Greetings All.

FYI

Gordon A. Watts
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, BC

http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census
en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

Permission to forward without notice is granted

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul, Jeff: SEN" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:57 PM
Subject: [CCC] S-18 hearings


Hi there everyone:

I don't have time for a long update, but here in a nutshell is what
happened in committee. The committee heard from Ivan Fellegi, the
information commissioner and the privacy commissioner. The information
commissioner pushed for amendments that would broaden access to the
census, but it was not well received by the committee. Felelgi and the
privacy commissioner were very happy with the compromise, and made that
clear.

The reception of the evidence was decidedly mixed. Mr. Schmidt
indicated that he will be introducing an amendment that would limit the
release of census information to tombstone information. The Liberals
and one of the Bloc members were quite clearly opposed to that
suggestion. The NDP member was generally supportive. Some wanted to
extend the hearings to allow for genealogists to come and appear before
the committee, but were told that you all wanted to skip the appearance
and get on with things.

Clause by clause analysis of the bill will happen tomorrow morning at
9:30am in room 208 West Block.

Jeff Paul

Policy Advisor
Office of the Hon. Lorna Milne
Ph: 613-947-9744
Cel: 613-715-2965



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