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Procedure and House Affairs committee As André mentioned in his presentation, if someone were to open a petition today, February 28, and have it open for 120 days, it could never be presented, so we'd have to put that warning up now.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's seven months before the election.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's not even if it's at 499. If it's at 40,000, and it hasn't been presented, those 40,000 signatures are lost.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee As André mentioned, the previous committee in the last Parliament issued a report on how to set up the e-petition system that was very prescriptive. One of those clear directives was that at dissolution, the site was to be completely deactivated. All of those signatures were to b
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee That would be the Wednesday after the 15th—
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's more of a database, really.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee I've taken notes.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee Or it deals with a bill, which would no longer be before the House.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee To get to the portal on the petitions website, if you're logged in as a member of Parliament, there's a button that appears at the top that says in green either “Member of Parliament” or “Député”, en français. Clicking on that button will bring you to the MP portal from the petit
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee That would be for creating an electronic petition. There's information available to people in the “About” section that has templates for creating paper petitions, but the “Create” link—
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee There are links to a guide on paper petitions that gives you templates and information there. “Create” would really be for creating an electronic petition.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee In neither case would we send the translation back for validation unless we received a particular request from the petitioner to validate it in advance. Typically, we don't.
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee If it is an e-petition, the user doesn't have the opportunity to enter it in both languages. The screen doesn't allow them to enter the text in English and in French. It's whatever—
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee They choose the language that they submit it in, and there are rules prohibiting people from having two petitions open simultaneously that are on the same topic. If you tried to enter the same petition in another language, that wouldn't be allowed because it's the same petition,
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc
Procedure and House Affairs committee I think the idea is that once it's published, it's very difficult to withdraw or change the text. If you were changing the text, then the people who signed it previously may not have signed the same thing. The change may seem insignificant, but for some people it might be a big d
February 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Jeremy LeBlanc