E-7474 Fair federal support for BC Ferries Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7474 — Fair federal support for BC Ferries — with 7,742 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Gord Johns. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7474
Petition Details
- Status: Closed
- Closing date: September 29, 2026
- Sponsor: Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni)
- Category: Transportation
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 7,742
- Daily increase: +10 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +109 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~16 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: June 1, 2026 — 589 data points recorded
Milestones
- 5,000 signatures reached on July 13, 2026 — total at that point: 5,053
- 1,000 signatures reached on June 6, 2026 — total at that point: 1,052
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on June 3, 2026 — total at that point: 504
Provincial Distribution
- British Columbia: 7,282 signatures
- Ontario: 205 signatures
- Alberta: 128 signatures
- Quebec: 36 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 21 signatures
- Manitoba: 17 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 6 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 4 signatures
- Yukon: 4 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 2 signatures
- New Brunswick: 1 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| June 1, 2026 | 20 |
| June 13, 2026 | 2,235 |
| June 22, 2026 | 2,755 |
| June 30, 2026 | 4,621 |
| July 13, 2026 | 4,969 |
| July 26, 2026 | 5,369 |
| August 7, 2026 | 5,552 |
| August 16, 2026 | 5,878 |
| August 24, 2026 | 6,089 |
| September 5, 2026 | 6,185 |
| September 13, 2026 | 7,120 |
| September 20, 2026 | 7,588 |
| September 29, 2026 | 7,742 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• Ferries are essential marine highways connecting coastal communities, workers, families, businesses, and supply chains to the rest of Canada;
• Vancouver Island is approaching one million residents and BC Ferries carries more than 22 million passengers annually;
• According to analysis prepared by the Library of Parliament, BC Ferries received approximately $1.63 in federal operational support per passenger in 2024-25, compared to approximately $291 for federally supported East Coast ferry systems;
• Canadians in Atlantic Canada and British Columbia both deserve strong federal ferry support because these services are essential national transportation infrastructure;
• Current federal ferry funding agreements rely on outdated constitutional arrangements and formulas created decades ago, when Vancouver Island had roughly half its current population;
• Vancouver Island and coastal communities should not have to become separate provinces in order to receive fair federal ferry support; and
• It is no longer sustainable to operate one of the world’s largest ferry systems without stable, long-term federal operational support.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to modernize federal ferry funding policies and provide fair, stable, long-term federal operational support for BC Ferries as essential national transportation infrastructure.
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