MONTREAL – Quebecers are leaning towards the Parti Quebecois and the charter of values, according to Leger’s latest online poll.
In a survey conducted on Friday and Saturday, 36 per cent of Quebecers would vote for the PQ, while 33 per cent said they supported the Liberals. The Coalition Avenir Quebec garnered 17 per cent support, and eight per cent said they were throwing their support behind Quebec Solidaire.
“Mathematically, that’s a small majority for the PQ,” Leger vice-president Christian Bourque told the Journal de Montréal. The French-language newspaper published the poll results on Monday.
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“The last time this happened was before the election,” Bourque noted. He was referring to the last provincial election in September 2012, which brought the PQ to power.
Support for Premier Pauline Marois was higher than for Liberal Party leader Philippe Couillard; 27 per cent of those polled said that Marois was or would be the best premier, compared with the 20 per cent that supported Couillard.
The poll, taken after the first three days of public hearings on Quebec’s proposed charter of values, revealed that support for Bill 60 had increased since last September: 48 per cent of those surveyed said they supported the legislation (up from 43 per cent last fall), while 41 per cent were opposed.
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When asked whether government employees should be banned from wearing religious symbols, 60 per cent were favourable or very favourable of the idea, while 35 per cent were opposed or strongly opposed.
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The online survey was carried out on Jan. 17 and 18. The 1,207 responses were weighted for age, education, gender and other factors. Online survey results are not published with margins of error.
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