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There was once a time when petitions to the House of Commons would be given a brief mention by a sponsoring MP and then filed away in an archive, somewhere to be ignored forever.

But in the glorious and transparent Internet age, these petitions are now sent to an official parliamentary website, where they are slightly less likely to be ignored forever.

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Most of the 108 petitions in the database deal with standard policy positions: Save the whales, reform the voting system, ban pipelines, build more pipelines. Below, the National Post presents some of the more original ideas.

Save the cereal box cartoon characters

While Canada slept, our Senate was drawing up a bill to ban the Kool-Aid Man. Bill S-228, which had its first reading in September, would prohibit all “food and beverage marketing” targeted at Canadians under the age of 12. For Quebecer Jean-Simon Bui and several hundred signatories, a world without Tony the Tiger and Count Chocula will not stand. “These characters are part of our folklore and embedded in our childhood memories,” he writes in a petition, sponsored by Liberal Joël Lightbound, that calls on the House of Commons to protect “our collective imagination” from the Senate.