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  1. Enter a Twitter Link on Your Website Page so it would be easier to share this great site!

    I find most of the time if you just enter a URL in a tweet it doesn't show in the stream. It would be so much easier for people to share your website if you had a twitter share button built right into your website page!

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  2. turn the topics list into a tag cloud

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  3. Add some more context to votes such as these

    http://openparliament.ca/bills/votes/41-1/178/

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  4. City government councils tracked here as well

    I would like this type of information for my city as well. I want to be able to see how my current Councillor has voted on all legislation that was put forward for a vote. I would like to be able to search on a topic and see what the reps have said. etc.

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  5. Add section for bills that recently came into effect

    It would be useful if you could add a new section on the Bills page for those that have recently come into effect. Thanks for your great work!

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  6. link to similar concepts in other Westminster states

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  7. Easy Access Mass MP E-mail Addresses

    Why write to one MP when you can write to them ALL. It would be great if this site grouped the e-mail addresses or all MP's by Province so that any citizen can simply 'copy and paste' them as a group into the TO line of an e-mail, without having to hunt and peck through all their websites and having to key them in one at a time.

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  8. Faster alerts

    Very much appreciate what you've done here. I used to receive faster alerts to key words and now I'm seeing delays like March 3rd being emailed to me by March 12th.

    I don't expect you CAN improve this, but I am curious what the bottleneck is. I'd love to receive the alerts ASAP.

    Thank you, -Gord

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  9. List different search filters available.

    I can't seem to find a full list of the available search filters (ie: text:)

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  10. Provide info graphic ( e.g. pie chart ) re. how whipped the particular MP is

    I can try to look through every vote that my MP has participated in & compare it to the party vote, but that takes a lot of time. It would be great to have a little pie chart with slices like “voted with party”, “voted against party”, “abstained”.

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  11. now take down pi

    cture saluting Sauron with Fish-cr

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  12. Provide a diff of the acts changed by a bill

    It would be awesome to see the changes a bill makes in some type of online interface. Something like it commonly done for code.

    Eg: http://markdotto.com/uploads/2014/09/github-split-diffs-v1.png

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  13. make written questions on the order paper more accessible

    MPs use oral questions (aka Question Period) to raise questions to the government, but as we know, there are time limits to both the question and response time. MPs also take advantage of submitting up to four written questions on the order paper that the government is required to respond to within 45 days. Often these q's are much more substantive. However, they are hard to find (even in Hansard, they are often just referred to by the question number) - and when answers are tabled, the response (and supporting data) isn't always accessible to the public! Step one would…

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    AdminMichael Mulley (Admin, openparliament.ca) responded

    I absolutely agree that making written questions more accessible would be great, though I don’t really see the benefit of highlighting questions until the answers are available. I haven’t done any research or activism around making these answers more public; if you or anyone reading this would like to research the situation a bit more, and see what might be possible in terms of getting the answers, that’d be great.

  14. https://vaccineinjurycompensationcanada.weebly.com/

    Create a Vaccine Injury Vaccine Compensation Program Vote at e-2386Petition Canada and share to all Canadians every day until it ends for votes May 21, 2020

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  15. Adjust postal code search with changes in the latest boundary adjustments (2011)

    I am in an area where I am impacted by the adjustments of 2011. When I entered my postal code, I was linked with my previous MP.

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  16. Links to other worthy/helpful voter sites like VotersInvited.ca, iCANParty, Democracy Watch etc

    They all have limited resources and need the exposure. One excellent site FactsCan.ca, which use to fact check major statements by Canadian leaders is no longer active, yet is needed now more that ever! Perhaps those people creating these sites should meet and see what can be done to make them more effecient and better known/used?

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  17. Just want to thank you for this wonderful site. i just ran into it; had no idea it existed before. thanks.

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  18. Create a poll for website users to vote by riding on each proposed bill

    This would encourage accountability of MPs. It would inform voters as to whether their MP is listening to them. It would promote a participatory democracy, one in which consensus is built through dialogue.

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  19. pat yourself on the back often throughout the day...this site is awesome

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  20. Is there any way to link to any Archival footage of the Members of Parliament during Question period?

    CPAC's archives are just obscenely difficult and frustrating to navigate. And Youtube is near hopeless for Canadian Parliamentary debates.

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