Monday, April 2, 2012

The Public Opinion Of Fast Tracking

According to a CBC poll about whether the Conservative's government proposal of fast tracking envirnomental reviews for resource development projects, as outlined in their 2012 budget, should be implemented. I strongly disagree, as noted in my last post, which was a response to the Conservative budget. And it appears that a huge majority of Canadians are with me. The current results are:

14% in favour
85% against
1% undecided

I hope the Convservatives realize that as a democratically elected, representative government, they have an obligation to represent the majority public opinion, which is opposed to this proposal. If they don't, I hope this favour rating becomes a mirror of the next election:

14% Conservative
85% NDP
1% Liberal

UPDATE: I also will add an opinion poll on the approval of the Federal Budget as a whole. I voted, and so far the results are:

9.83% Yes, totally
23.1% Yes, for the most part
11.67% No, I'd like to have seen more cuts
5.85% No, I'd like to have seen more spending
22.51% No, for the most part
27.04% No, not at all

So the majority of Canadians disagree. I'm happy about that.

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