Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Economy
12%
Employment
12%
Health care
Taxes
5%
Environment
5%
5
8.67
8.45
8.19
8.18
8.14
8.05
7.99
[=>8.00]
8.37
High
Importance
7.73
7.65
6
Of
Par2cular
Signicance:
Approx. 50% of respondents mentioned economic
related issues (jobs, taxes, deficits, poverty, etc.)
as the most important.
Two issues which ranked much higher in this
years survey than in previous years:
Improving the ethical behavior of politicians
Security at home and abroad
Municipal
11%
Canada
9%
Province
6%
49%
42%
38%
24%
31%
31%
8%
60%
12%
51%
19%
44%
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Weaknesses
Issue/Policy Area
Score (P, I)
Issue/Policy Area
Score (P, I)
(6.17, 7.65)
(4.07, 8.19)
(6.12, 7.19)
(4.31, 8.18)
(5.76, 7.73)
(4.69, 8.67)
(5.64, 7.99)
(4.91, 8.45)
(5.21, 8.76)
(5.23, 8.14)
(5.32, 8.37)
(5.36, 8.05)
*Performance (P) and Importance (I) Ratings are out of 10. Areas of strength and weakness are ranked in order of greatest to least according to performance
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rating; where performance ratings are equal, areas are ranked according to importance rating.
10
8.78
8.63
8.47
8.45
8.38
8.32
8.31
8.12
6.85
High
Importance
[=>8.00]
11
Of
Par2cular
Signicance:
Respondents said that strong and ethical
character was the most important attribute a
politician should have.
This was considered even more important than
possessing:
o Strong knowledge of the issues
o Strong professional skills
12
13
74%
56%
52%
51%
48%
47%
45%
43%
14
15
Addi2onal Insights
16
29%
12%
9%
23%
21%
17
72%
12%
14%
18
43%
Websites
19%
13%
Social media
8%
Radio
6%
5%
19
Discussion:
Discussion:
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Discussion:
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Discussion:
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