E-7657 Memorial Grant Program for First Responders Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker

Name: Signature data for Canadian e-petition E-7657
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Track E-7657 — Memorial Grant Program for First Responders — with 659 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: 659
Daily increase: +2 in the last 24 hours
Seven-day increase: +4 over the last 7 days
Growth velocity: ~1 new signatures per day (7-day average)
Tracking started: August 10, 2026 — 170 data points recorded

Milestones

Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on September 2, 2026 — total at that point: 502

Provincial Distribution

Ontario: 210 signatures
British Columbia: 160 signatures
Manitoba: 125 signatures
Alberta: 57 signatures
Nova Scotia: 34 signatures
Quebec: 24 signatures
Newfoundland and Labrador: 18 signatures
New Brunswick: 8 signatures
Saskatchewan: 8 signatures
Prince Edward Island: 3 signatures
Yukon: 3 signatures
Nunavut: 2 signatures

Historical Signature Growth

Date	Signatures
August 10, 2026	6
August 18, 2026	22
August 25, 2026	197
August 27, 2026	347
August 30, 2026	415
September 1, 2026	464
September 3, 2026	512
September 6, 2026	547
September 11, 2026	573
September 17, 2026	604
September 29, 2026	620
October 16, 2026	636
November 7, 2026	658
November 8, 2026	659

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.