Politics


Politics Survey

Amidst Leadership Campaign, Ontario Tories Have One-Third (33%) Voter Support As Dalton McGuinty and Liberals (51%) Continue to Lead

Even Highly Touted Frontrunner Eves Doesn't Defeat Liberals in Head to Head Battle: McGuinty Liberals (49%) versus Eves Conservatives (35%), with 16% Choosing `Neither' (10%) or `Don't Know' (6%) If Vote was Tomorrow
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Most (44%) Ontarians Blame Local Officials for Walkerton Mishap -- down 11% since August 2001

But 36% Blame Provincial Government -- Up 10% Since August 2001
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Canadians Split on Expanding `War on Terrorism' to Take Down Iraq President Saddam Hussein

Half (51%) of Canadians Support Possible American Military Action Against Iraq Because of Weapons of Mass Destruction


44% Oppose the Move
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BC Government Approval Continues to Slide

BC Liberal Approval (43%) Continues Downward Trend; But Most (71%) BC Liberal Voters Still Approve
BC Public Divided on Freezing Health Care Spending (49% Approve vs. 50% Disapprove)
Majority (58%) Approve of Contracting Out Non-Clinical Hospital Services
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BC Liberals Going Too Far - Too Fast

Majority (55%) Thinks BC Government Going Too Far - Too Fast
Majority (56%) Disapproves of Rewriting Existing Contracts
Half (47%) Less Trusting Of Provincial Government
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GVRD Residents Support Third Crossing

Three Quarters (77%) of GVRD Residents Support Proposal to Build a Toll-Tunnel from Vancouver to the North Shore
Most Residents (69%) Say Lions Gate and Second Narrows Bridges are Not Sufficient to Handle Current Level of Traffic - 90% Say Bridges Will Not be Sufficient in 10 Years Time
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While Half (48%) of Canadians Say They Would Prefer a U.S. Style Republic System of Government With an Elected Head of State,

And Two-Thirds (65%) Believe the Royals Should Not Have Any Formal Role and Are "Simply Celebrities" . . .

Eight-in-Ten (79%) Support The Constitutional Monarchy As Canada's Form of Government
Six-in-Ten (62%) Believe Constitutional Monarchy Helps to Define Canada's Identity and Should Continue

And, Six-in-Ten (58%) Do Not Believe the Issue Is Important Enough to Go Through the Fuss of Changing Something That Seems to Work Okay