Guardian, apparently :subbies:
But honestly, what does it mean in terms of voting system?
If this is supposed to get the government to decide what voting system Canadians want, be it to remain as is or a new system, how does this survey help. I am willing to bet most Canadians don't know what answer leads to which system, and since they are not asked directly, won't know if they are being sold a bridge if the government suddenly comes out with: "overwhelmingly, people want a full proportional system" or "Canadians by and large want no change".
In fact that whole survey is totally useless and other than being amusing like the one they developed for the CBC for the elections, cannot provide any proper factual information to support any policy. The two most glaring missing matters: It does not ask whether people are dissatisfied with the current system (they would find that by and large, people are satisfied with the current system - which is why in proper surveys on issues of interest to people, it usually rates only a few percentage point way down the list of issues of import); Secondly, it does not ask people to rate voting systems directly, after explaining how each one would specifically work.
It is really a "touchy-feely" survey that one can make come out whichever way you want, just like the old surveys the school counsellors used to make us take to help determine what we wanted to do in life. Just to enrage them, I used to tell them in advance what I was going to make the survey say about my "choices' before even taking the test - and it always came out the way I said, regardless of my actual interests. In the present case, I turned out to be aGuardian, as I am willing to bet anything that it corresponds (in their book) with FPTP.
