I haven’t done enough research to confidently answer your second question but for your first one:
That is the official website of the House of Commons of Canada. The process varies a bit between paper petitions and e-petitions but essentially, once the petition is certified (has enough signatures (25 for paper petitions, 500 for e-petitions), is formatted properly, and an MP is willing to present it) it will then be presented in the House by the MP associated with the petition and the government then has 45 days to respond to the content, if they fail to respond within 45 days, the MP who presented the petition can designate a committee of the house to look into why the government failed to respond.
So it doesn’t force the government to enact the content of the petition, but it forces the issue to be brought up in the House and forces the government to respond.
I haven’t done enough research to confidently answer your second question but for your first one:
That is the official website of the House of Commons of Canada. The process varies a bit between paper petitions and e-petitions but essentially, once the petition is certified (has enough signatures (25 for paper petitions, 500 for e-petitions), is formatted properly, and an MP is willing to present it) it will then be presented in the House by the MP associated with the petition and the government then has 45 days to respond to the content, if they fail to respond within 45 days, the MP who presented the petition can designate a committee of the house to look into why the government failed to respond.
So it doesn’t force the government to enact the content of the petition, but it forces the issue to be brought up in the House and forces the government to respond.
Source of most of that info: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/home/index