E-7214: Petition to the Government of Canada — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track petition E-7214 — "Petition to the Government of Canada" sponsored by Leah Gazan. 3,225 signatures and counting. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7214
Petition Details
- Status: Closed
- Closing date: April 3, 2026
- Sponsor: Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre)
- Category: Agriculture
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 3,225
- Daily increase: +206 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +1,384 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~198 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: March 25, 2026 — 224 data points recorded
Provincial Distribution
- Alberta: 1,091 signatures
- Ontario: 801 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 399 signatures
- British Columbia: 340 signatures
- Quebec: 163 signatures
- New Brunswick: 146 signatures
- Manitoba: 128 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 108 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 17 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 17 signatures
- Yukon: 5 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 2 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| March 25, 2026 | 1,258 |
| March 25, 2026 | 1,467 |
| March 26, 2026 | 1,611 |
| March 26, 2026 | 1,737 |
| March 27, 2026 | 1,906 |
| March 28, 2026 | 2,073 |
| March 29, 2026 | 2,198 |
| March 30, 2026 | 2,251 |
| March 30, 2026 | 2,368 |
| March 31, 2026 | 2,531 |
| April 1, 2026 | 2,651 |
| April 2, 2026 | 2,927 |
| April 3, 2026 | 3,194 |
| April 3, 2026 | 3,225 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• The network of federal agricultural research facilities across the wide range of Canada’s growing conditions is essential to future farm and food system success;
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) plans to close 7 research facilities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, and the Organic and Regenerative Research Program, and cut the employees and support staff required to carry out agricultural research at these facilities and elsewhere;
• Decisions were made without a) analyzing the value of research programs and facilities, b) consulting any farm organizations, facility or program managers, c) knowing what would be lost, or d) understanding the impact on farmers and agricultural economy;
• The cuts will irreparably harm public plant breeding, the foundation of Canada’s international success;
• The cuts will create critical gaps that cannot be relocated to other facilities or carried out at non-AAFC institutions including: scientific expertise; long-term studies, multi-stage variety development; multi-site variety registration data; organic and regenerative crop and livestock research; and
• The cuts will reduce Canada’s competitiveness, resilience and food security, increase reliance on foreign science and seed, increase costs, and waste decades of public and producer investment.
We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to immediately suspend AAFC staff terminations and to continue operating the research centers, research farms and the Organic and Regenerative Research Program for at least 24 months to provide cost-benefit transparency and ensure irreplaceable research capacity and long-term studies are not lost due to hasty decision-making.
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