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Petition launched to allow for digital signing of wills in Ontario amid coronavirus
petition asking the Ontario government to amend a law that required people to sign wills in-person after an Angus Reid survey found that majority of Canadians were unsure of how to create or complete their wills in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Willful’s petition asks the province to permanently allow digital signing, storage and witnessing of wills, which they argued will reduce fraud by providing “secure identity verification and an audit trail, and secure digital storage will prevent wills from being unlawfully destroyed.”Currently, Ontario’s Succession Law Reform Act requires typed wills to be printed and signed in the presence of witnesses who also sign the will — which is not an easy task with social distancing measures