Angus Reid polls suggest high level of public satisfaction with Vancouver Olympics

An Angus Reid on-line  poll has found that 76 percent of Metro Vancouver and Sea to Sky corridor residents feel that the 2010 Olympics  made them proud to be Canadian.  

In the survey, 504 people were given a list of words and  asked for responses on feelings they've had. The second most popular response after "proud to be Canadian"  was "enthusiasm" (64 percent).

It was followed by "joy" (55 percent), "indifference" (20 percent), "anger" and "sadness" (12 percent each), "trust" (11 percent), "disgust" (nine percent), "fear" (seven percent), "shame" (five percent), and "none of these" (two percent).

Only 49 percent  of respondents felt  that hosting the Games will help promote long-term job creation in Vancouver and B.C., whereas 51 percent felt this wouldn't be the case.

The three levels of government all achieved high marks for their performance in promoting the Games, with the municipal level registering the highest approval level at 71 percent. The provincial government's performance in promoting the Games was approved by 69 percent of respondents, with 56 percent expressing support for the federal government's performance.

More than four in five--81 percent--felt that the hosting the Olympics will have a mostly positive effect on Vancouver; 76 percent felt that it would have a positive effect on B.C. and 75 percent felt it would have a positive effect on Canada.

Meanwhile, an on-line Angus Reid poll of 1,013 Canadian adults, 1,008 American adults, and 2,010 British adults found that large majorities in all three countries  felt positively about the staging of the Vancouver Olympics.

In Britain, where media reports have been particularly scathing, 64 percent of respondents  felt that the Vancouver Olympics have been well-run with few or no problems. In the United States, 62 percent responded that the Games have been well-run with few or no problems. In Canada, 82 percent of respondents felt this way.


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Comments

3 Comments

polls don't tell it all

Feb 27, 2010 at 8:23pm

Charlie, I agree on most counts. The Olympics has brought us together and in time all the negative aspects will be forgotten as we tend to forget the bad as time goes-by.

Some unfortunate things about the Olympics were the Cambie Street fiasco. The province, TransLink and City of Vancouver decided that the end justifies the means and ruined may lives by betraying store owners along Cambie Street. The luge death is troubling because the IOC blamed the luge athlete rather than take responsibility to avoid a similar incident elsewhere in another forum. Nothing appears to have been learned from the unnecessary luge death and the guilty will likely never be brought to justice.

Finally, the untold story is the shame of 24 hour transit service without any regard for residents harassed by the transit noise because the rules were thrown out the window and transit noise and emission are viewed as a necessary evil by TransLink, the province and City of Vancouver, without or with the Olympics. I think that they all have a loser's mentality. The end does not justify the means and the British press is correct in slamming the loser’s who run this province and transit.

Blind Faith

Feb 27, 2010 at 10:13pm

This is called propaganda.

How about reporting the facts instead?

Gordon Campbell and his cronies first promised:

- the Games would inject $10 billion into the provincial economy.
- this was shortly reduced to $4 billion.

The Games will add about $770 million to the provincial economy in 2010, the Conference Board of Canada said this week. That’s on top of the roughly $788 million the Games added to B.C.’s gross domestic product between 2003 and 2008 according to a November report by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Adding the two numbers together gives a figure:

**** just under $1.6 billion. ****

not even close to what we taxpayers invested and $8.4 billion short of the promise.

meaningless

Mar 1, 2010 at 12:02am

3 of 4 young men like boobs
1 of 4 young men like penii (plural of penis)

4 of 4 young men don't have a clue what they are getting themselves into