Prince George Citizen polled 1121 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Do you believe the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to break up the Freedom Convoy protests was reasonable?
The poll ran from January 26 to February 7. Of the 1,121 votes, we can determine that 574 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Yes, the protests were illegal and had gone on far too long 45.99% local, 43.53% total
Mostly yes, but the Emergencies Act should be changed to make it harder for government to invoke 8.19% local, 5.80% total
Not sure, 2.09% local, 2.14% total
Mostly no, the Emergencies Act should only be invoked during a major national crisis 15.51% local, 16.24% total
No, the Freedom Convoy protests were peaceful and legal 28.22% local, 32.29% total
Local Total
Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.9%, 19 times out of 20.
Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
