MP-Promoted Petition to Remove Canada From UN Gains Over 71,000 Signatures

Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 2, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

A petition filed in the House of Commons asking for Canada to pull out of the United Nations has garnered over 71,000 signatures as its Tory MP sponsor takes flak from Liberal ministers.

“Over 60,000 Canadians have now signed a petition calling on Canada to protect our national sovereignty by withdrawing from the UN and its subsidiary organizations,” wrote Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis on the X platform on Jan. 3. Ms. Lewis is sponsoring the petition filed by Doug Porter from Burnaby, B.C.