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Little middle ground among North Shore readers on Liberal-NDP pact

Last month, the NDP and Liberals sealed a deal that will keep the Liberal minority in power in Ottawa until 2025 in exchange for moving forward on key NDP priorities like a national dental care plan.
Jane Seyd
Jane Seyd
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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed an agreement to keep the Liberal minority in power.File image

Last month, the NDP and Liberals sealed a deal that will keep the Liberal minority in power in Ottawa until 2025 in exchange for moving forward on key NDP priorities like a national dental care plan. Thursday's federal budget was the first test of that deal, and included $5.3 billion over the next five years to establish the dental care plan.

But it turns out almost an equal number of people hate the deal as approve of it on the North Shore.

Which means it's obviously a polarizing issue.

According to the poll results, 38.66 per cent of locals responding said they're generally happy with the Liberal/NDP pact because getting a public dental care plan is worth the bargain. But 38.77 per cent of readers said they weren't happy with the deal, calling it undemocratic. Fewer people – less than 23 per cent – said they had mixed feelings and would wait to see how the priorities supported by the deal were put into practice.

The North Shore News polled 1,844 North Shore News readers and asked the question: What do you think of the Liberal-NDP confidence deal to keep the Liberal minority in power until 2025?

The poll ran from March 23 to April 8 on this website. Of the 1,844 votes, we can determine that 701 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

I'm generally happy with it. Getting a new dental care plan for Canadians is a big deal and worth the bargain. 38.66% local, 34% total    
I have mixed feelings. A lot will depend on how the dental care plan and other priorities get supported. But it's true nobody wants another election. 22.82% local, 19.58% total    
I'm not happy with it. Canadians did not vote to give the Trudeau Liberals a majority but that's what they're getting with this deal. It's undemocratic. 38.37% local, 46.42% total    
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Results are based on an online study of adult North Shore News readers who are located in North Shore. The margin of error – which measures sample variability – is +/- 2.27%, 19 times out of 20.

North Shore News 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.