Immigration Questions

--SIX IN TEN (60%) SAY CANADA'S IMMIGRATION POLICY PRIORITY SHOULD BE TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, RATHER THAN ENCOURAGE QUALIFIED IMMIGRANTS TO COME TO CANADA (39%) -- -- FURTHER 44% OF CANADIANS SAY "CANADA SHOULD BREAK OFF ALL DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE RELATIONS WITH CHINA UNTIL THEY STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM LEAVING CHINA" - THE MAJORITY (55%) DISAGREE --

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Public Release Date: Embargoed until Sunday, November 21 at 9:00pm (EDT)

This National Angus Reid Group/Globe and Mail/CTV poll is based on a national telephone survey conducted between November 4 th and November 14 th , 1999 among a representative cross-section of 1,500 Canadian adults. These data are statistically weighted to ensure the sample's regional, age and sex composition reflects that of the actual Canadian population according to 1996 Census data.

With a national sample of 1,500, one can say with 95 percent certainty that the overall results are within +2.5 percentage points of what they would have been had the entire adult Canadian population been polled. The margin of error will be larger for other sub-groupings of the survey population.

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For more information on this news release, please contact:

John Wright
Senior Vice-President
Angus Reid Group
(416) 324-2900

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