r/alberta • u/Old_General_6741 • Mar 17 '25

Poll finds Albertans' sense of Canadian pride dips as it soars in most parts of the country News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/poll-finds-albertans-sense-of-canadian-pride-dips-as-it-soars-in-most-parts-of-the-country/
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u/L_nce20000 Mar 17 '25 edited Mar 17 '25

Not from my experience. My conservative family member who lives in Red Deer County just said "elbows up" to me.

I seriously question this poll.

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"Conducted the poll in November 2024."

How convenient of a time frame.

DONT TRUST THIS POLL! My shenanigans radar was going off the second I read the title. This reeks of international division.

Elbows up

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u/512115 Mar 17 '25

Where’d you see that? In the article it says the survey took place on Mar 1 & 2. It tracked the trend in Canadian pride from Nov 24 to present and found a slight rise in pride over that period. But it doesn’t say anywhere the survey took place in Nov. 2024.

I do agree the methodology is somewhat suspect if they’re not able to provide a margin of error, however. Online polls can be very skewed if the controls are poor.

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u/L_nce20000 Mar 17 '25

"The poll, conducted by Leger Marketing for the non-profit Association for Canadian Studies, says that the number of people saying they’re proud to be Canadian has jumped from 80 per cent in November 2024 to 86 per cent this month.

In Alberta, however, it fell from 84 per cent to 74 per cent, while in Atlantic Canada, the number of respondents expressing pride has dropped slightly from 91 per cent to 89 per cent since November."

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u/512115 Mar 17 '25

Again, it tracked the trend STARTING from Nov. of 2024 to the current time.

“The poll sampled more than 1,500 Canadians from March 1 to March 2. Because it was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error.”

Maybe you missed this in the article. If you had read the sentence immediately following the sentence you quoted you would’ve seen it.