n2burns

That's already the law in Canada:

Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions to registered parties, electoral district associations, candidates, leadership contestants and nomination contestants.

I'm pretty the government already has a mailing list. The email address is used "to confirm your signature" and, if you opt-in, provide updates.

Wow, you weren't lying about them "running a very old Lemmy version." For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.

The organization seems fairly reputable but I can’t 100% confirm anything.

I never said they weren't reputable, they even allow signers to opt-out of being contacted. I will stand by my statement that organizations, both in political and social justice spaces, mainly use these petitions to attract new donors and volunteers.

But I don’t think petitions have to go through Canadian government website for it to be successful Its just the a more typical approach.

I guess it really depends on was you think qualifies as a "successful petition." IMHO, at best, it could lead to more people being engaged with Queer Momentum. Maybe there's a chance of media attention? I'm not sure what else can be achieved.

FYI, in 2023, an official petition on a similar topic got over 16K signatures.

And I'm sure Drumpf would be 100% okay with that plan, and wouldn't retaliate against Apple. /s

Petitions to the Canadian Government should be on https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Home/Index

Otherwise, this is just am organization collecting contact info.

EDIT fixed a typo.

I believe November?

I'd argue this is an issue with messaging. The government did such a bad job explaining to people what the tax was and how it works. For example, I talked with sooo many people who swore they weren't getting their Carbon Tax Rebates but just didn't realise that's what the CAI payments were.

I downvoted your comment because I think it is mostly factual incorrect. However, I don’t want to be too hard on you as it's also a good example of how the messaging around this policy was a complete failure.

For example, renters are unable to stop using gas heating.

I would guess a large percentage, maybe even the majority of rentals have electrical heat/heat included. And while individual renters can’t choose to switch their heating source at their current homes, making natural gas more expensive has a market effect, makes rentals with alternative heating sources more desirable.

Most people cannot afford electric cars, or if they can, the infrastructure to actually charge it (house / garage).

It’s not an all or nothing, the carbon tax encourages people to drive less. Whether they choose not to travel or go by walking, biking, carpool, public transit, consumers do have choices.

Also, although it’s obvious how much carbon tax I’m paying on my own gas bills, it’s not clear to me how much food prices have gone up as a result of carbon tax on the transportation of that food.

I agree, this definitely isn’t clear, and this is another failing in messaging. At very least, projections of these numbers should have been available right from the start. Instead, hearsay was allowed to thrive with many people believing inflation was due to the Carbon Tax. Recent studies have shown the effect on prices are almost insignificant.

The system gives rebates before the tax is charged. No one is waiting for the next rebate, they already have it.

Can you please explain why you think currency sovereignty is such a big hangup? I see lots of potential issues with joining the EU, but having to use the Euro doesn't even register for me as a problem.

Sure, but Norway also has decent active/public transit. So, if residents can't afford an EV, there's a good chance they just don't own a car at all, and can still get around okay.