e-44 (Parliament of Canada)
- Keywords
- Ombudsman
- Parliamentarians
- Political behaviour
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- parliamentary practices relating to parliamentary discipline are known to limit legislators’ voting behaviour on a much wider array of issues than in other Westminster parliaments such as the Parliament of the UK;
- the denial of travel requests or refusal of membership on desired parliamentary committees are tactics which former MPs have attested are used by party whips to compel voting behaviour on all manner of questions – including “free votes”; and
- parliamentary experts have long called for the establishment of a federal parliamentary ombudsman.
- Open for signature
- January 12, 2016, at 3:26 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- May 11, 2016, at 3:26 p.m. (EDT)