e-619 (Governor General's Medals of Honour)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Search and Rescue is the only major first responder organisation within Canada that is not honoured by a national service medal;
- The potential hazards and risks which are inherent in Search and Rescue operations are equivalent and sometimes over and above the normal service of other volunteer and paid organizations and as such deserve special recognition;
- There are over 300 professionally trained volunteer teams in Canada with more than 12,000 volunteers who put in 100,000 hours of training, community service and administration. More than 300,000 personal hours on more than 20,000 searches annually; and
- An astounding 95% subjects were found or rescued within the first 24 hours of a volunteer SAR group being activated last year.
- Open for signature
- February 22, 2017, at 12:56 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 22, 2017, at 12:56 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Todd Doherty
(Cariboo—Prince George)
February 28, 2019 (Petition No. 421-03281) - Government response tabled
- April 11, 2019
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 46 |
British Columbia | 497 |
Manitoba | 7 |
New Brunswick | 2 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 13 |
Northwest Territories | 1 |
Nova Scotia | 6 |
Ontario | 57 |
Prince Edward Island | 1 |
Quebec | 1 |
Saskatchewan | 16 |
Yukon | 5 |