Quebec residents' willingness to vote in favour of independence is lacking, similar to that of Albertans, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.
An
Angus Reid Institute survey on Quebec independence, the second part of their three-part series on Alberta and Quebec independence, showed that only 26% of respondents would vote in favour of independence if a referendum were held on the topic at the time of polling, Feb. 2 through 6.
Conversely, an
ARI survey on Alberta independence released on Feb. 9 found that 29% of respondents would vote in favour of independence if a referendum were held at the time of polling.
The difference between the provinces, however, was that Quebec had more committed pro-independence voters, with 15% of respondents saying they would definitely vote to leave, compared to 8% in Alberta.
A conversation about where Albertans get their news followed the ARI survey on Alberta independence, after it found that 71% of respondents who would vote to stay said they get their independence news from mainstream media sources, compared to 28% of those who would vote to leave.
Conversely, 50% of those who would vote to leave got it from alternative media sources, compared to 18% of those who would not vote to stay.
There is no such discrepancy in Quebec, as 84% who would vote to leave and 79% of those who would vote to stay got their news from the mainstream media. Alternative media sources accounted for 13% of those in favour of leaving and 10% of those in favour of staying.
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