A public petition to save BioWare has drawn enough signatures that the Canadian government will at least have to think about it: 'This is absolutely possible,' MP says

A lot of attention has been focused on the "Save Mass Effect" petition on Change.org, which has now drawn over 300,000 signatures collectively calling on Electronic Arts to make a new Mass Effect game.

But there's another petition in the works, asking the government of Canada to save BioWare—the people, not the product—and while it only has a tiny fraction of names attached to it, it's enough that the Canadian government will actually have to look at it.

Unlike the Change.org petition, this one is official, in that it's actually part of the legislative process: Public petitions like e-7989, as it's formally known, are "used to draw attention to an issue of public concern. They ask the House of Commons, the Government of Canada, a minister or a member to take or refrain from taking some action."

The requested actions in this case are three:

1. Provide BioWare with the capital necessary to secure independence of themselves and their intellectual …