You do realise they present these in the House, right? This isn’t change.org. They bring the issues into parliament, and with that, politicians are able to held more directly accountable because one simply can’t just state that they weren’t aware of the issue. They are put on record as to whether or not they were present when the petition was presented by a sponsoring MP, and are put on record for their stance on it.
People that say “petitions do nothing” talk about corporate sites like change.org where it is literally inadmissible. OurCommons is literally provided by the federal government to give your voice to parliament.
These petitions get a “government response” which is typically an MP from the government giving a canned response. I’d love to see a link to whatever record you are talking about.
An actual link to the petition instead of just talking about it:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6679
Why didn’t the CBC provide a link? It would’ve been so easy for them.
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This needs to be higher!!!
Because petitions do nothing? Name literally a single petition from this website that has caused a law change.
You do realise they present these in the House, right? This isn’t change.org. They bring the issues into parliament, and with that, politicians are able to held more directly accountable because one simply can’t just state that they weren’t aware of the issue. They are put on record as to whether or not they were present when the petition was presented by a sponsoring MP, and are put on record for their stance on it.
People that say “petitions do nothing” talk about corporate sites like change.org where it is literally inadmissible. OurCommons is literally provided by the federal government to give your voice to parliament.
These petitions get a “government response” which is typically an MP from the government giving a canned response. I’d love to see a link to whatever record you are talking about.
Hansard transcripts are a thing, and they livestream and timestamp videos of House sessions.
Any links?