E-7657 Memorial Grant Program for First Responders Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7657 — Memorial Grant Program for First Responders — with 616 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Wade Chang. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7657
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: December 8, 2026
- Sponsor: Wade Chang (Burnaby Central)
- Category: Social affairs and equality
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 616
- Daily increase: +2 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +19 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~3 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: August 10, 2026 — 138 data points recorded
Milestones
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on September 2, 2026 — total at that point: 502
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 180 signatures
- British Columbia: 157 signatures
- Manitoba: 123 signatures
- Alberta: 56 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 34 signatures
- Quebec: 21 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 18 signatures
- New Brunswick: 8 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 7 signatures
- Yukon: 3 signatures
- Nunavut: 2 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 2 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| August 10, 2026 | 6 |
| August 16, 2026 | 18 |
| August 24, 2026 | 123 |
| August 26, 2026 | 246 |
| August 28, 2026 | 356 |
| August 30, 2026 | 414 |
| August 31, 2026 | 453 |
| September 2, 2026 | 484 |
| September 4, 2026 | 519 |
| September 7, 2026 | 548 |
| September 10, 2026 | 570 |
| September 16, 2026 | 583 |
| September 21, 2026 | 610 |
| September 24, 2026 | 616 |
Petition Text
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:
• In 2018, the Government of Canada established the Memorial Grant Program for First Responders to provide a tax-free benefit to the surviving families of fire fighters, paramedics, police officers, and other eligible public safety personnel who lose their lives in the line of duty;
• The Memorial Grant Program provides a one-time benefit of $300,000, which has remained unchanged since the program was established in 2018;
• Since 2018, inflation has increased by approximately 25%, significantly reducing the real value of the benefit and the financial support available to surviving families;
• Numerous federal benefits and pension programs are automatically indexed to inflation to preserve their intended value, but not the Memorial Grant Program for First Responders; and
• Families of first responders who make the ultimate sacrifice in service to Canadians deserve a benefit that ensures the long-term support originally intended by Parliament.
We, the undersigned, Citizens and Residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Increase the Memorial Grant Program for First Responders to reflect the cumulative increase in the Consumer Price Index since the program was established in 2018; and
2. Amend the Memorial Grant Program so that the benefit is automatically indexed annually to the Consumer Price Index, as published by Statistics Canada.
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