As your Member of Parliament, I work hard to ensure the voices of our community are heard in Ottawa. A great way to be involved in our democracy and raise awareness or express opinions on a specific issue is with a petition. Please browse through the list of petitions below, which are available for downloading and sharing. Signed petitions can be sent postage-free to either my constituency office or my Ottawa office. There must be a minimum of 25 signatures on the petition for it to be tabled to the House.
If there is an issue you would like to create a petition about, please feel free to contact my staff. All petitions need to be in a certain format in order to be certified by the House of Commons, so I encourage you to read the Petitions Practical Guide for more information.
List of current community petitions:
Electronic Petitions
Support Kennedy Stewart's initiative to create a new system that would allow Members of Parliament to sponsor electronic petitions.
Petition Tracking System - from Petitions Network
Call upon the House of Commons in Parliament to make provisions for the general public to easily search and access online the full content of all petitions brought forward by citizens, as well as the full content of governmental written response to petitions brought forward by citizens, through the Parliamentary website www.parl.gc.ca and the House of Commons administration.
Oil Supertanker Traffic - from Dogwood Initiative
Call upon Parliament and the B.C. Legislature to use whatever means are available to stop the expansion of oil supertanker traffic through B.C.’s coastal waters.
Fair Access to Information
Call upon the President of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat to implement a government wide policy of posting on government institution websites the manuals that they are to make available through section 71 of the Access to Information Act.
Information Technology property rights - from Digital Copyright Canada
Call upon Parliament to prohibit the application of a technical protection measure to a device without the informed consent of the owner of the device, and to prohibit the conditioning of the supply of content to the purchase or use of a device which has a technical measure applied to it. Further call upon Parliament to recognise the right of citizens to personally control their own communication devices, and to choose software based on their own personal criteria.
Warning Labels on Domestic Products containing Toxic Substances
Call on the Government of Canada to support the Right to Know Bill C-408, An Act to ensure that warning labels are affixed to products containing toxic substances.
Protect OAS
Maintain funding for the Old Age Security program and make the requisite investments in the Guaranteed Income Supplement to lift every senior out of poverty.
Warrantless Online Spying
Urge the House of Commons not to pass Bill C-30 and to reject any proposal that would allow the authorities to obtain the private information of Internet users without a warrant.
End Animal Cruelty
Recognize animals as beings that can feel pain and move animal cruelty crimes from the property section of the Criminal Code, and strengthen the language of federal animal cruelty law in order to close loopholes that allow abusers to escape penalty.
Previous petitions:
Hate Crimes Legislation - tabled on December 13, 2011
- Petition calls for new hate crimes legislation
Jennifer Moreau, Burnaby NOW, January 4, 2012 - Video of tabling to the House of Commons
- Government Response
