In Open Politics an issue is something worth talking about.
Definition: According to the guidelines something becomes an full fledged issue in Canadian politics when it becomes front-page news in a major newspaper. Otherwise is it a minor issue?.
Many issues have pages already, to find them see the list of all issues.
Open politics, by design, encourages people to define issues factually before giving an opinion. Keep the facts and history separate them from the positions and arguments. In political debates, people frequently waste time because they do not define what they are talking about, what the words mean, etc. The IPA or issue/position/argument and structure is recommended for developing pages on the issues.
The following guide will explain in more detail how to create and develop an issue page.
how to develop an issue page
don't duplicate an existing issue.
Check the list of all issues and the page search? to see if your issue already exists.
look up your issue in wikipedia to see if it exists there. If it doesn't the term you are thinking of may not be a good page name. (Open Politics tends to mirror wikipedia in naming conventions).
propose position?s on the issues that combine or add original ideas, solve many problems at once, to get the maximum number of people to support your position
compare policy from different political parties, across jurisdictions, find related issues and positions with detailed and specific arguments, and connect them to each other via the
contact a political party or candidate and ask them which positions they are taking on your issues.