Public Opinion

A Reader's Digest Sponsored Study Conducted by Ipsos-Reid

Public Overwhelmingly (89%) Thinks Their Local Police Do A Good Job At Performing Duties In Professional And Respectful Manner

Two-in-Ten (22%) Say Incidents Of Police Brutality Are Common

One-in-Ten (13%) Are Personally Worried About Being A Victim Of Police Brutality

British Columbians Select Forest Fires (43%) as BC's Top News Story Of Yhe Year

SARS (29%) Top Choice for Canadian News Story of the Year

Public Selects Robert Pickton (37%) As BC's Newsmaker Of The Year; Premier Gordon Campbell Is A Close Second (28%)

Public Thinks Media Important To Society (95%) And Themselves Personally (83%)

Seven in Ten (71%) Confident Electricity Companies Will Be Able to Sustain Demand Over the Next Number of Years, However Just 58% of Ontarians Concur
One in Three (34%) Willing to Pay More for Hydro In Order to Invest in a More Fail-Safe System - 42% in Ontario
Premier Eves (71% - 73% in Ontario) Leads List as Doing a `Good Job' During Blackout

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However, Seven in Ten (70%) Feel That, Like Other Guns, You Should Need a Licence to Own and Use a Pellet Gun

Plurality (44%)Believe U.S. Knowingly Used Incorrect or Fabricated Intelligence To Build Case for War - 32% Say Reports Were Correct and Weapons are Still Yet to Be Found, 19% Believe Intelligence was Simply Incorrect
70% Say That President Bush Should Face Impeachment Hearings if an Inquiry Finds He Knowingly Used Incorrect or Fabricated Intelligence to Convince Congress to Approve Iraq Military Action

Most (59%)Canadians Say U.S. Knowingly Used Incorrect or Fabricated Intelligence (42%)or Believe Intelligence was Simply Incorrect (17%)to Justify Attack on Iraq
Only One in Three (35%) Now Say Reports of Weapons of Mass Destruction Were Correct and That Coalition Has Just Not Found the Evidence Yet