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Support for the Conservative government’s controversial anti-terror legislation appears to be split, according to a new poll.
Forum Research recently surveyed 1,402 Canadians and found that 41 per cent support Bill C-51 compared to 37 per cent, who oppose the bill. Twenty per cent could not decide whether they are for or against the legislation.
Opposition to Bill C-51 is most common among young voters, males and the wealthiest residents.In Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, 50 per cent of respondents opposed the bill while in Quebec, only 30 per cent of those surveyed did not support the legislation.
The poll also addressed public perception of ISIS and its threat to Canada.
More than half (55 per cent) of respondents said they see ISIS as a direct threat to our country while 30 per cent did not. The results mark a significant change from public opinion on the subject in January, when 67 per cent said they saw ISIS as a threat to Canada.
“On the one hand, Bill C-51 doesn’t arouse the general public anger the NDP seems to expect, and many people support it,” Lorne Bozinoff, president of Forum Research, said in a written statement accompanying the poll.
“On the other hand, there is seen to be less support for viewing ISIS as a direct threat to Canada, which is a concept that underpins most of our strategy in the Mid East.”
The poll randomly, which randomly sampled Canadians 18 years old and older on Sept. 14 and 15, is considered accurate plus or minus 3 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
