[N Say]

<strong>Written By:</strong> N Say
<strong>Date:</strong> 2008-02-12 12:20:04
<a href="/article/82735799-poll-finds-canadians-dont-buy-into-notion-of-one-continent-one-culture">Article Link</a>

Yet only a slightly smaller proportion - at 59 per cent, still a clear majority - agreed that "all North Americans share certain values that are different from those of the rest of the world."
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<a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bb7dd812-dabe-46e9-8c63-bf6fc8ce884e">http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bb7dd812-dabe-46e9-8c63-bf6fc8ce884e</a>

[h.f. wolff]

Without knowing the questions asked, and who, where, when they were asked, and who paid for the exercise, it is worthless to speculate on what a poll really represents.

I partook in a telephone poll a year or so ago "just to see what it was like".

I was appalled at the way "opinions" are cooked, ie. forced into a predetermined outcome.

Here is how it is done:

All questions are multiple-choice with 3, 4, 5, choices to select one's answer from.

There is no choice of "none of the above".

There is no choice for "here is what I really think".

I found that my opinions mostly fell into the "none of the above" category which, of course, was not possible.

Therefore, depending on who pays for the polling exercise, the polling firm selects the choices available to the unsuspecting public to "force" the wished-for outcome.

Neat, Huh?

Now I am fully aware that the polls conducted, or paid for, by the MSM cannot be this blatantly manipulated, especially just prior to an election, because serious discrepancies would, and do, become the laughing stock of the watercooler crowd and would call into question the value of the entire polling industry.

H.F. Wolff

[Ed Deak]

On the question : Canadians who want to be successful etc. have no choice but to move to the USA.

My question is how do we measure and what do we call "success"?

We had our chance to move to the USA in 1951 when we were still in England, ultimately for 7 years and only had to go to the embassy in London to sign the papers. It was all paid for etc.

The last minute we decided against it and have been blessing our lucky stars ever since. Even when we used to go for visits, or the odd camping trip, we could hardly wait to get back home to Canada. There was something in the air we could never understand and tolerate.

Ed Deak.

[Dave Ruston]

Absolutely! No NAFTA, SPP, Bush, Mulroney, or Harper can change the fact that I am, first and foremost, CANADIAN!!

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Dave Ruston

[Jacob]

I returned to Canada last night around 9 p.m., after having lived almost 6 years in the USA with a TN Visa. I slept well last night and feel relieved to be back in BC. The number of differences between "us" and "them" are indeed multiple, and ought not to be negated and slighted. It's a really strange world there, down south.

I do not intend to belittle the challenges we as Canadians face, but within the USA are some major problems that have recently surfaced and so not seem to be resolvable because the system is not in place to allow the necessary "structural changes".

But the more I think about it, the more I realize that most of "them" do not have the vaguest idea about what is ahead, and that makes me scared.

[gaulois]

I always ask them first who funds the poll in which case they cannot tell as it would mess up their methodology. Second, if this goes on, I tell them "If I am going to do you a favor, will you do mine and carry this survey in French?" That normally ends the call. Hehe.

I have myself created for my blogue a totally fictitious polling and research institute with researchers and spokespeople. Having a ball at this and that is why I am not spending as much time posting on Vive. Blame the research institute called the "Groupe de Recherche des Identités Francophones et Francophiles Oubliées en Milieu Minoritaire: i.e. the GRIFFOMM. TTFN.

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

[suck1tup]

Preparing us for the NAU?

I don't agree with the part about us sharing the same values as Americans. Sadly, a significant amount still believe the wars are a good thing.