The minister says I am cynical. At least there is one minister here listening to how we should invoke democracy into the country by getting petitions in place.
If the government and the democracy keeps working from a majority government and a cabinet to its members to vote in a certain way, notwithstanding the desires of people through petitions across the land, then we tend to alienate ourselves from the very people who have put us in this place.
My comment is this. If we truly want democracy, then let us put it in place. Let us take a simple process like petitions with some threshold of numbers of our population who sign them and turn their question or desire into a motion. Let us get it into a committee, study it and possibly turn it into legislation or include it in a piece of legislation that we want.
That is it. I would be interested in other comments in the House, but more than comments, I am interested in some action. The next time this comes up, it should be in the House of Commons with some kind of legislation with teeth in it and not some kind of rhetorical comments that, sure, they want our comments but, too bad, so sad, they are going to do nothing about it.