About this petition

Why we email your rep, not run a mass petition

Form letters get filtered. A staffer skims the first one, sees the next ten thousand match it word-for-word, and the whole batch lands in a single tally line on a briefing memo.

A real email from a constituent — short, specific, written from a personal address — is a different category of input. It comes in through the front door. It gets read. When enough of them arrive on the same issue, with the same ask but different wording, that's the signal a politician notices.

Our tool exists to lower the friction of writing that email — not to replace it with something easier and less effective.

The pre-written text is a starting point, not the message

When you complete step 1, we draft a subject line and a body that lay out the ask cleanly. It's accurate, it's well-sourced, and you can absolutely send it as-is.

But it will be more powerful if you make it yours. We strongly encourage you to edit before you send.

The pre-written draft says what we believe. Your own words say what you believe — and that's what your representative needs to hear.

What makes a great message

Some things to add or rewrite, in your own voice:

• Why this matters to you personally. A line or two about your situation: you live in an apartment, you're a renter, you've been priced out of rooftop solar, you've watched your bill climb every winter — whatever's true.
• A story about energy prices. If your power bill has changed how you live, say so. If you've made hard tradeoffs because of energy costs, say what they were. Specifics land.
• Your connection to the riding. How long you've lived there, what you do, what you care about. Reps pay attention to constituents who feel like neighbours, not abstractions.
• One thing you'd change with plug-in solar. If certified balcony systems were legal tomorrow, what would you do? Buy one for your west-facing balcony? Help your parents on a fixed income? Tell your friends?
• A clear ask. Keep ours, or rewrite it in your words. The shorter and clearer, the better.

You don't have to add all of these. Even one paragraph of your own voice — between our intro and our closing — turns a campaign letter into a constituent letter.

What we send, what we keep

We don't email your representative for you. The send happens from your own email client (Gmail, Outlook, your phone's mail app), so the message arrives from your real address — that's the part that makes it count.

We do record that you signed (your name, postal code, and consent choices) so we can show the running count of people who've taken action and follow up if you opted in to campaign updates. The full data handling is on the Privacy and Anti-Spam (CASL) pages.

Then what?

After you send, we ask you to confirm, the counter ticks up, and you'll see share buttons so people in your network can do the same thing. The campaign keeps running until certified plug-in systems are legal across Canada — and we'll keep you in the loop as the politicians who got your email start to move.