[derekb]

I visited the Vital Statistics office in the second week of July to find out where we stood. I had originally been told when I filed my request that I should hear back at least by the end of May. Then the provincal workers went on strike for the better part of April so I figured right, that's the end of June then. When I went there in July I was told it's going slower than they thought and it could now take maybe 3 MORE months to see anything! I'd like to be optomistic but I fear this is just another failure of the same buracacy that has held our identities hostage for all these years. If I never felt like an outcast before, I sure did sitting there with hat in hand to ask this stranger if I can please have access to my identity. Am I the only one who wonders about the equality and humanity of this issue? Most persons have the freedom to choose who they share their personal information with. Identity theft is a crime. How is it acceptable that my government has information about me that I do not have? I believe this information which has been kept from me is not theirs to keep and they have stolen my identity from me, only now dangling it in front of me, just out of reach. To further ruin my day the vital stats folks told me that they're processing all the veto's first and if any veto's are received before they finish, they'll process them too. So as of May 1 I had a right to my information as long as no veto's had been filed. If some ignorant lazy spectator from my past decided on May 15 to file a veto, it's now too bad for me. Betcha a nice lawsuit could be had from all this. How much would you think is reasonable for 30 plus years of torment by the government?

Sorry, I'm having a bad day over this issue, it's not as bleak as I make it sound and I'm sure we'll all be done waiting before we know it.