E-7547 Affordable housing and condo conversion policies Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7547 — Affordable housing and condo conversion policies — with 887 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Dan Albas. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7547
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: October 24, 2026
- Sponsor: Dan Albas (Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna)
- Category: Social affairs and equality
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 887
- Daily increase: +61 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +90 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~13 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: June 26, 2026 — 125 data points recorded
Milestones
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on July 13, 2026 — total at that point: 555
Provincial Distribution
- British Columbia: 300 signatures
- Ontario: 274 signatures
- Alberta: 181 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 32 signatures
- Quebec: 28 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 25 signatures
- Manitoba: 21 signatures
- New Brunswick: 12 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 7 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 3 signatures
- Yukon: 3 signatures
- Nunavut: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| June 26, 2026 | 7 |
| June 29, 2026 | 34 |
| July 1, 2026 | 54 |
| July 3, 2026 | 69 |
| July 8, 2026 | 83 |
| July 10, 2026 | 207 |
| July 12, 2026 | 474 |
| July 15, 2026 | 726 |
| July 17, 2026 | 760 |
| July 20, 2026 | 775 |
| July 26, 2026 | 786 |
| August 4, 2026 | 796 |
| August 11, 2026 | 868 |
| August 12, 2026 | 887 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• The federal government has announced the Canada–British Columbia Partnership on Condo Conversion, through Build Canada Homes and BC Housing, to use federal support and financing tools to convert more than 2,200 vacant condominium units in priority growth areas in British Columbia into affordable homes;
• Federal tax dollars are paid by Canadians across the country and should not be used to protect Vancouver-area condominium developers, investors, or lenders from losses created by speculative overbuilding, inflated land values, weak demand, or failed market assumptions;
• Metro Vancouver has record levels of completed and unabsorbed condominium inventory, and unsold units should be allowed to fall to prices that households can afford through open-market discounts, creditor losses, or receivership before public acquisition is considered; and
• Condominium developers and landowners have benefited for decades from rising land values, public infrastructure, favourable planning decisions, and strong private returns, and should not shift downside risk onto taxpayers when market conditions change.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to refrain from using federal funds, guarantees, loans, or other financial supports to purchase or finance unsold condominium units in British Columbia unless all acquisitions are publicly disclosed, independently appraised, priced materially below current market comparables or based on post-receivership valuations, protected by permanent non-market affordability covenants and transferred to public, non-profit, co-operative, or Indigenous housing ownership, so that federal housing funds create permanent affordable homes rather than bailing out private market losses.
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