LISPOP commissioned a survey of voters during the 2022 election and we’ll be disseminating findings from it over the next few weeks. But as an opening, I wanted to take a look at public spending priorities in the 2022 eleciton compared to the 2018 election. To do so, I compared the spending priorities from LISPOP’s 2018 Ontario Provincial Election Survey with those from the 2022 survey. Respondents were ppresented with a series of issue areas and asked to state whether they preferred spending more, the same or less on that area.
I’ve noticed that Statistics Canada seems to lag other national statistical agencies in making their data available in user friendly formats.
There's that Can't-Do-Won't-Do spirit @StatCan_eng is famous for.
Is there another statistics agency whose suggestion for obtaining annual GDP data - the most-used economic indicator - is to do it yourself? https://t.co/fl7DqpvTkl
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) January 15, 2019 In my own personal experience, it has been a difficult to get what was seemingly very basic information.
Colleagues and I at the Laurier Institute For The Study Of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) conducted a survey of ONtario voters in the 2018 election. One of the things we were interested in was people’s feelings about their personal financial situation and about immigration and refugees.
The reasoning was simple: it seemed in the campaign like the PCs were really trying to capitalize on people’s anger. In the literature on populism, two common schools of thought are that people are angry about their economic situation and about threats from immigration and refugee.
My colleague George Wootten and I have a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Political Science out in which we survey journalists, parliamentarians and bloggers in Canada in 2014 and asked them to rank different definitions of “open government”.
We hypothesized that people would choose different definitions of open government that fit their institutional position.
We presented our survey respondents definitions of open government that reflected concepts such as responsiveness, information, accountability and participation.
Introduction
As Ontario voters consider their choices in municipal elections, a new report by the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) went back in time to examine the dynamics of Waterloo’s 2010 controversial plebiscite to end fluoridation.
Fluoridation is one of the modern world’s great triumphs. It safely, cheaply, equitably and effectively improves dental health and quality of life for all people, with benefits focused mostly on children and the poor.