The House of Commons has streamlined the process for citizens to create and deliver petitions to their representatives in Ottawa, allowing for the receipt of electronic petitions, something that wasn't allowed only a few months ago.
Through the work of MP Kennedy Stewart, the NDP MP for Burnaby South, who helped steer the proposal in the House, Canadians can if they prefer, now share their concerns or raise issues without the need of packaging up the signatures and mailing them off to their MPs.
However, the drama of holding up and then dropping a giant package of signatures to their desk for MPs will still be available, as the paper based petition process will also still be accepted.

The guidelines on how to create online petitions and other background on the process can be found here.
So far there have been 23 online petitions created by Canadians for our consideration.
One petition that highlights the nature of how the process works and is of interest to residents of coastal British Columbia is the petition calling for the return of Coast Guard facilities in British Columbia.
For more items of interest to the Northwest from the House of Commons see our archive page here.
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