E-7343 Review of Reciprocal Arrangements for Marine Workforce Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7343 — Review of Reciprocal Arrangements for Marine Workforce — with 1,565 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Aaron Gunn. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7343
Petition Details
- Status: Closed
- Closing date: August 13, 2026
- Sponsor: Aaron Gunn (North Island—Powell River)
- Category: Employment and labour
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 1,565
- Daily increase: +63 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +159 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~23 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: April 15, 2026 — 282 data points recorded
Milestones
- 1,000 signatures reached on May 25, 2026 — total at that point: 1,001
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on April 24, 2026 — total at that point: 678
Provincial Distribution
- British Columbia: 423 signatures
- Ontario: 384 signatures
- Quebec: 323 signatures
- Alberta: 164 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 85 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 64 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 37 signatures
- Manitoba: 36 signatures
- New Brunswick: 35 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 6 signatures
- Yukon: 2 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| April 15, 2026 | 6 |
| April 19, 2026 | 170 |
| April 23, 2026 | 410 |
| May 1, 2026 | 663 |
| May 9, 2026 | 768 |
| May 21, 2026 | 916 |
| May 29, 2026 | 1,023 |
| June 10, 2026 | 1,113 |
| June 24, 2026 | 1,154 |
| July 15, 2026 | 1,194 |
| July 28, 2026 | 1,298 |
| August 6, 2026 | 1,399 |
| August 12, 2026 | 1,534 |
| August 13, 2026 | 1,565 |
Petition Text
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:
• Transport Canada administers Reciprocal Arrangements (RAs) under the Canada Shipping Act without a clear, transparent, or accountable governance framework;
• The current government approach allows large marine corporations to become dependent on ongoing access to foreign labour in a manner similar to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, without sufficient safeguards to protect Canadian wage standards, career advancement pathways, or sustained investment in domestic marine training;
• Maritime unions have raised concerns that this approach weakens Canada’s limited marine training institutions and erodes the long-term availability of a trained Canadian marine workforce;
• Continued reliance on international mariners through these arrangements negatively impacts Canada’s ability to be self reliant in advancing seafaring skills for both a domestic merchant marine supply chain, Pacific Pilotage Authority, and the Department of National Defence from coast to coast; and
• These arrangements are expanded without regular public reporting or parliamentary oversight, raising concerns about their alignment with Canada’s long-term marine workforce capacity, safety objectives, and the practical integrity of cabotage protections.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to pause further expansion of Reciprocal Arrangements and undertake a review of existing agreements, with the objective of establishing a coherent, transparent framework that supports Canadian workforce development, training capacity, safety, and marine sovereignty.
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