I am part of the Angus Reid online panel and get polls regularly. For this one I was paid $1.50 to answer - you get a cheque when you reach $50 from taking surveys. I think it is not a good idea to get people to answer for money, it I also think they should be screening out anyone active in politics from their survey. I suspect their panels have way too many politically active people taking part in them.
I took screen shots of all of all of the questions, other than the first one. so people could see what is being asked and how. Beyond asking how you plan on voting in May, they asked about waste incineration in Metro Vancouver, what you think of your local government, what you think is the best source of electrical power, and if government or industry should own power production.
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Generally seems like valid, well presented questions. Small point, is 30 hours per week considered full time employment in every survey Reid takes? I would think most people assume 40 hours as a minimum to say "full" time. That would certainly skew my personal perception of any full time employment figures. I don't like wordy answer choices like "do deserve to be re-elected" and "do not deserve to be re-elected". Easy to tick the wrong box, the same operative word "do" should not appear in both choices. How about just "yes" or "no"?
Big area of concern for me are leading descriptions. In this case refering to electricity. Kudo's for using the word "smaller" instead of "small" regarding run of river hydro, but it still leads one to believe all are small. They are not. Clusters are required to make them viable. Though described as "run of river", many are not. The Narrows Inlet proposal on the Sunshine Coast is not run of river at all. If approved, it will drain several alpine lakes by levels of 60 feet in order to operate. The use of the word "dams" in description of large-scale hydro leads one to believe dams are not used in smaller scale projects. This is not true either.
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