MONTREAL – About two-thirds of Canadians expressed some form of support for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a poll released Tuesday suggested.
Asked whether they strongly supported, somewhat supported, somewhat opposed or strongly opposed the idea of the free trade zone, 67 per cent of respondents said they supported it, the poll commissioned by the research arm of the Council for Canadian Unity indicated.
Twenty-five per cent of respondents were opposed and eight per cent either did not know or would not say.
“My sense is that people don’t have an ideological view on this trade question, they have a practical view of it,” said Bob Rae of the Council for Canadian Unity and former NDP premier of Ontario.
The survey was conducted by the Montreal pollster CROP Inc.
CROP interviewed 1,298 Canadians between February 21 and March 13. A poll of this size is considered accurate within about three percentage points 19 times out of 20.
