[CivicAccess-discuss] Scassa review of the OGP IRM report blogpost

[David Akin]

First point Alex notes in his post was about e-petitions. Good news: Canada is going to do it.


Last week, MP Kennedy Stewart's motion on e-petitions passed. Kennedy, an NDP (opposition) MP was pretty pleased:

Kennedy's page on his e-petition motion:
http://kennedystewart.ndp.ca/e-petitions

.. his Web site:
http://betterpetitions.ca/

.. why this is a big deal:
http://newdemocracy.craigscott.ndp.ca/topics/6956/ideas-for-21st-century-use-of-e-petitions

And here's the vote in the House of Commons -- it passed! -- but it was close:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Pub=hansard&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=2&DocId=6395387&File=0


On Feb 5, 2014, at 7:27 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> Alex Howard, from Canada's advisory panel on open government, shares his recommendations to the government as a panelist in this blog post: http://e-pluribusunum.com/2014/02/05/canada-public-consultation-open-government-national-action-plan/
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> On 2014-02-03, at 2:23 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
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>> http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=151:canada%E2%80%99s-progress-on-open-government-ogp-report-open-for-comments&Itemid=81.
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