I think this is partially because the question is very vague. I generally support PR and wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of Canadians do too, but I think if you compare the current system to just “proportional representation”, it allows respondents to imagine their ideal system that fits within PR.

I remember answering this survey, and thinking the results would be drastically less favorable if you describes a specific system, like for example, MMP. Similarly if you added more details, like would their be less local representatives, or would parliament have to expand significantly?

I’m pretty the government already has a mailing list. The email address is used “to confirm your signature” and, if you opt-in, provide updates.

Someone has already made an issue (Repo is missing a license) so hopefully that’ll be resolved soon.

The organization seems fairly reputable but I can’t 100% confirm anything.

I never said they weren’t reputable, they even allow signers to opt-out of being contacted. I will stand by my statement that organizations, both in political and social justice spaces, mainly use these petitions to attract new donors and volunteers.

But I don’t think petitions have to go through Canadian government website for it to be successful Its just the a more typical approach.

I guess it really depends on was you think qualifies as a “successful petition.” IMHO, at best, it could lead to more people being engaged with Queer Momentum. Maybe there’s a chance of media attention? I’m not sure what else can be achieved.

FYI, in 2023, an official petition on a similar topic got over 16K signatures.

And I’m sure Drumpf would be 100% okay with that plan, and wouldn’t retaliate against Apple. /s

Petitions to the Canadian Government should be on https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Home/Index

Otherwise, this is just am organization collecting contact info.

EDIT fixed a typo.

I’d argue this is an issue with messaging. The government did such a bad job explaining to people what the tax was and how it works. For example, I talked with sooo many people who swore they weren’t getting their Carbon Tax Rebates but just didn’t realise that’s what the CAI payments were.

I downvoted your comment because I think it is mostly factual incorrect. However, I don’t want to be too hard on you as it’s also a good example of how the messaging around this policy was a complete failure.

For example, renters are unable to stop using gas heating.

I would guess a large percentage, maybe even the majority of rentals have electrical heat/heat included. And while individual renters can’t choose to switch their heating source at their current homes, making natural gas more expensive has a market effect, makes rentals with alternative heating sources more desirable.

Most people cannot afford electric cars, or if they can, the infrastructure to actually charge it (house / garage).

It’s not an all or nothing, the carbon tax encourages people to drive less. Whether they choose not to travel or go by walking, biking, carpool, public transit, consumers do have choices.

Also, although it’s obvious how much carbon tax I’m paying on my own gas bills, it’s not clear to me how much food prices have gone up as a result of carbon tax on the transportation of that food.

I agree, this definitely isn’t clear, and this is another failing in messaging. At very least, projections of these numbers should have been available right from the start. Instead, hearsay was allowed to thrive with many people believing inflation was due to the Carbon Tax. Recent studies have shown the effect on prices are almost insignificant.

The system gives rebates before the tax is charged. No one is waiting for the next rebate, they already have it.

Can you please explain why you think currency sovereignty is such a big hangup? I see lots of potential issues with joining the EU, but having to use the Euro doesn’t even register for me as a problem.

He also studied at Queen’s University for 2 years.

Thanks for confirming that. Yeah, I’m also interested to see how this is used. Other comments don’t seem to get that politicians in charge give messages to pass to employees and the top bureaucrats just make it happen, so this seems completely unnecessary. Maybe they’re being paranoid that their controversial messages would be censored?

I don’t understand why they even needed this.

I assume the US Federal Government works like other jurisdiction where the message is passed to all the departments/agencies who then send it to their employees from someone on high (Deputy Minister/Secretary) or a dedicated internal email address.

While this may seem like duplicating work dozens or hundreds of times, it’s not that much work and it’s not used that often. Plus, it has the advantage of not coming from an external email address.

Why wasn’t an address provided? I’m not familiar with Kingston’s pilot, but the social service department of most cities have solved this pretty simple problem by either renting a PO Box or using their own address. Sure, people in the know recognize the address but at least people can receive their mail.

I am familiar with who the LPC has as House Leader. Your comment didn’t clarify which three out of ~half dozen declared candidates. The article’s about Freeland, your comment referenced Carney. but there wasn’t a third candidate in the discussion.

It will be interesting to see how the three of them fair.

What three are you talking about?

I bought some at Bulk Barn for Christmas.

I was really hopefully that the messaging around the carbon tax would have been better, and Canadians would realize most of us earn money overall with the carbon rebates.

I was hoping that could lead us into more Pigouvian taxes to financially encourage people to make better choices. For example, a Pigouvian tax on clothing to reduce our reliance on fast-fashion and encourage consumers to buy more high-quality, long lasting clothes.

Oh no, these are my Dad’s favourite!!

I heard lots of stories from my friends who were students in engineering, and there were a lot of f’d up stories about Canadian trained PEs too. The pattern I noticed wasn’t where they were trained, but how much they were paid (you get what you pay for).

Also just an anecdote!