Canadians Petition Parliament to Withdraw Bill C-22

An e-petition (e-7416) hosted on the House of Commons website is gathering signatures calling on the government to withdraw Bill C-22. The petition’s circulation on Hacker News suggests the bill has drawn attention from the tech community, though the substance of the petitioners’ objections could not be extracted: the page content captured here consists entirely of the petition site’s standard legal disclaimers rather than the petition text itself.

Those disclaimers do clarify how Canada’s e-petition system works, which is relevant context for anyone signing. Publication of a petition implies no endorsement by the House of Commons or any MP, and a petition gains parliamentary privilege only once an MP formally presents it to the House. Government responses to presented petitions are tabled and posted verbatim, without alteration by the House.

Editorial note: because the source capture contains no details about Bill C-22’s contents or the petitioners’ specific demands, readers should consult the petition page directly or the bill’s text on parl.ca before drawing conclusions about what the legislation does.