I'm obviously forgetful

I realized the other day that I never followed up with the response we got from Sukh Dhaliwal's office at the beginning of the month. Unfortunately, as helpful as his staff is (Al, the guy helping me out, actually took the initiative to call me as soon as they heard back on their inquiry!), CIC is not overly helpful. We received the same response as we did to our inquiry in May. Four months later, they're still expecting to reach a decision "very soon." So, there seems to be nothing to do but sit and wait some more. Fortunately, it seems we're getting pretty good at that. Dhaliwal's office asked me to contact them in a month's time (I'll be calling them next week) if we hadn't heard anything so that they can do another inquiry for us. I may possibly be able to convince them to get an answer directly from the Accra office, rather than going to the database in Vegreville, AB. And since foreign offices are required to get back to MP inquiries, we might actually be able to hear something helpful!

(Ironically, despite going in personally to see my local MP's staff the same day I called Dhaliwal's office, asking them [read: forcing them] to do an inquiry, and asking to have the email response forwarded to me, I have yet to hear anything from them at all. So much for being concerned about the concerns of their constituents.)