Okay, so it's not really any better than the US system. Incidentally, in the 24 hours after I posted that, they did in fact finally release a response to that

Okay, so it's not really any better than the US system. Incidentally, in the 24 hours after I posted that, they did in fact finally release a response to that petition. It was long after the deadline that they promise for petitions that reach the threshold, and it wasn't much more than a justification of what they already do, but at this point I doubt anybody was expecting anything more.