Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think this is a real issue for your committee to try to piece out. Building on Dr. Fox's comments, I think it may be to your advantage to think about the flexibility for you as parliamentarians to decide how to deal with a petition. My point was that in part right now...if the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly, I think you're probably correct. Another way to deal with it would be at a committee level. There was some concern that you could have a funny petition that gains enough support that could justify debate. But you're right, having an MP sign off on it should mitigate th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think what I want to emphasize is that as a committee you're asking all the right questions in terms of how you actually make this functional and an experience that's worth a citizen's time to go on and sign. I'm not an expert on digital interface but I think there are expert

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Great. Absolutely, I think privacy is an important consideration. I know that in order to verify signatures, it's likely you're going to be collecting more than only a name. You're going to be collecting an address, and an email probably, to verify who they are. You're right. T

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I am Samara's research manager and an acting director at the organization. Samara, for anyone who doesn't know, is an independent non-partisan charity, working to improve political participation in Canada. I'm joined by my colleague, Mark Dance, who is providing some social media