On July 3 online polls across the country showed the vast majority of Canadians opposed the award. A Newstalk 650 showed 85% opposed, a Calgary Herald showed 77.95% against, a VOCM's poll showed 80% against, a Winnipeg Sun's poll showed 76% against. Even a CNews poll with the stark choice of "Yes, he's a champion of women's rights," or "No, he's a murderer," found more agreeing with Morgentaler being dubbed a 'murderer'. The largest of such opt-in polls were the CTV poll, with more that 16,000 respondents, and the Globe and Mail poll, with over 20,000 respondents. The CTV poll showed 61% opposed and 39% in favour.So much for the impartial and unbiased coverage of current events. And this is by no means the first time that mainstream media employs manipulative tactics to ensure acceptance of yet another socially perverse initiative. Their strategy is simple - anyone who disagrees should get an impression that his views are not shared by many, if not - that he's the only one out there who fails to see the greatness of what the "progressives" believe in...
Interestingly, the Globe and Mail poll was not available on their website, despite the fact that the site has an extensive archive of past polls. An e-mail sent to the Globe seeking an explanation for the disappearance of the poll was not returned.
The last sighting of the Globe poll showed 56% of votes (or 11,467) being against Morgentaler's receiving the award, and 44% (or 8,931) being in favour. And that is a poll conducted by a very pro-abortion newspaper which one would expect to have many like-minded readers.
With that build-up, the publication of a July 4-7 Ipsos Reid poll of 1000 Canadians that concluded that two-thirds of Canadians backed the Morgentaler award seemed very doubtful. In any case, the Ipos Reid poll received massive coverage in media outlets from coast to coast.
Still wasting your money buying Pravda-like newspapers? Are you sure that buying brown bags and ready-made sandwich wrappers won't be cheaper?
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