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North Shore residents overwhelmingly support vaccine passports: poll

Only 14 per cent oppose mandatory vaccination for access to non-essential businesses like restaurants and gyms
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The majority of North Shore respondents to a recent poll agreed with the concept of vaccine passports.VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images

The province's B.C. Vaccine Card, which will be required to access non-essential businesses like restaurants, gyms and theatres, comes into effect on Sept. 13.

With 90 per cent of North Vancouver, and 85 per cent of West Vancouver/Bowen Island residents having had at least one dose, support for the program appears to be very high.

North Shore News polled 1,111 North Shore News readers and asked the question: Do you support the B.C. Vaccine Card?

The poll ran from Aug. 23 to Aug. 27. Of the 1,111 votes, we can determine that 391 are from within the North Shore community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, it's time to stamp out COVID-19 if we can. 78.76 % total, 80.56 % local    
Maybe, but I have some concerns. 4.32 % total, 5.37 % local    
No, civil liberties are more important. 16.83 % total, 14.07 % local    
  Local   Total

This result provides for a 95% confidence level +/- 2.92% margin of error in the local community.

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.