Editing Popular initiative (section)

==== Canada ====
; British Columbia
The Canadian province of British Columbia has a citizen initiative law known as the Recall and Initiative Act.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/96398_00 |title=Table of Contents - Recall and Initiative Act |publisher=Bclaws.ca |access-date=2012-09-14}}</ref>  The original proposal was [[1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum|put to voters in a referendum]] held in October 1991 and was supported by over 83% of voters. It was subsequently put into force by the incoming NDP government. Since it came into force in 1995, at least 14 attempts have been made to force the government to either adopt a law or to hold a referendum on the question, but only one has succeeded.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/init/Summary-of-Initiative-Petitions.pdf |publisher=Elections BC |accessdate=2023-04-13 |title=Summary of Initiative Petitions}}</ref> Only one secured the required signatures of 10% of registered voters in each riding throughout British Columbia. Due to this achievement the government held the first referendum under this legislation, in September 2011 on the subject of repealing the [[Harmonized Sales Tax]]. Details of its use in BC are available on the Elections BC website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/referenda-recall-initiative/initiative/ |title=Initiative &#124; Elections BC |publisher=Elections.bc.ca |access-date=2012-09-14}}</ref>