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The Alliance party favors their use, and would submit an idea to a national plebiscite if 3% or more of the Canadian population supported it through a petition. This matter prompted Rick Mercer, comedian on the Canadian TV program "This Hour Has 22 minutes" to place his own petition on line. It demands that Stockwell Day, leader of the Alliance party, change his first name to "Doris." When they launched the petition on NOV-13, they were hoping to obtain 350,000 electronic signatures. By NOV-16, they had already received over 400,000 responses -- many more than the 3% criteria that would force a national referendum under an Alliance government. By NOV-22, the response had topped 1 million -- not bad in a country of about 30 million people. However, there is no guarantee that all of the signatures are legitimate. The web site allows the same name and Email address to be entered repeatedly. We suspect that many Canadians are voting early, and voting often. 3 Day's protestors, including Natives with drums, the "Young Lesbian Cheerleaders," and others dressed as Barney the Dinosaur and Fred Flintstone stopped chanting "Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay; Stockwell Day go away." They replaced it with a simpler serenade "Doris Day, Doris Day."