Money down the drain at Elections Canada

The agency shouldn't be squandering money to undertake survey research at all. If Elections Canada were to offer $100 each to the survey respondents as a reward for voting, almost all of them would likely take it and troop to the polls.

TORONTO—Anxious about low voter turnout among aboriginal, rural, and allophone 18 to 34 year-olds, the folks at Elections Canada are spending up to a quarter million dollars to survey 2,500 of them as part of the agency's "youth research action plan." That comes to $100 per person surveyed....

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