NDP hopes to open up Parliament with e-petition motion

Like the ruling party is going to let that happen.

My e-petition forces MPs to shut up if they are too stupid for government.

An hour of debate ?? Holy shite they'll all be asleep for sure.

AAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... like Harper is going to allow that!!! LMFAO!

Did any of you three read the article? This is a good idea! Provided the rules are followed.
"The e-petition motion, which if passed would be non-binding on government, means any Canadian resident would be able to request a petition on any topic, with the support of any MP."
ONE Hour of debate, what's the harm if it's a legitimate concern. Democracy in the electronic age is a good idea. This coming from a dyed in the wool Conservative.

And any e-pitition that gets 500,000 signatures means that the policy bill and the minister it rode in on have to resign. Eh Vic. How's it going? Know what I mean? So you better not try and slip something surreptitiously past the Canadian public. Or bye bye.

If Canada starts to see democracy in action, life could really get good again in Canada eh. Suggestions like the e-pitition mean that it will be unlikely the Conservatives or the Liberals will be reelectrd or running the government next federal election. That's my intuition. I voted Conservative but find that they are catching up to the Liberals as a major disappointment. Historically I am also one who could not ever constitutionally go near the socialists or NDP. But hey. Voter apathy exists because no one is being served. Serve it go.

Good Idea

B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T !!!!

what if 50000 people demanded by e-petition that we quit wasting time debating things that don't matter? would that trigger an hour of debate about whether we should be debating things that don't matter? or would that matter.

The first interesting idea that I have heard from the NDP. It did not include milking Unicorns to pay down debt or any of their other normally bad ideas. It would need a very careful trial run to make sure that important subjects were dealt with while the whakadoo crowd could not hijack it and waste to much time debating the above mentioned Unicorn Elixir.

Well Gerald - I think we should start with e-petitions on the topics you mentioned especially the side-stepping their golden pensions and non-taxable perks

consider a group of Baboons.
They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates.
And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
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Believe it or not ……. a Parliament

Stop paying their pension we the tax payers could survive. .. Stop robing us parliament..

yes, we need more democracy by and for the people of Canada. More voice from the people as those elected do not serve the democracy of the people here..our tax money is being misused on their pensions and rides. and living in expenses..

Not a good idea.

You could easily get 50,000 people to peition that the House of Commons debates something really stupid and pointless. As opposed to what's debated there already.

I'm not so sure this is a good idea. You'd have the lunatic fringe (religious zealots, of whom there are many lunatics), tying up our Parliament. The lunatic fringe already has a forum. Sun Media.

Great idea, it would create much more involvement in the process, and people would be paying more attention to our government, the more eyes the better. Some governments thrive on our lack of attention and participation.

If the conservatives are interested they must have figured out a way to rig it.

These people in parliment are our "elected representatives". They are there to represent us. 500000 e mails and nothing gets done. There are already avenues to let our politicians know how we feel.

Shouldn't the NDP be sticking to their real issues, like M.P.'s ability to breast feeding their baby while sitting in parliament or taxing businesses more or side stepping their golden pension reform topic like they did last week.