The polls come after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith warned Ottawa last month not to test the ``resolve'' of Albertans to oppose such measures.
Most Albertans would support some kind of national cap on carbon emissions from the oil and gas sector, two new polls suggest.
“ conflict with the narrative that our current government is telling Albertans and Canadians that Albertans do not support this kind of action,” said Joe Vipond of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, which commissioned the polls.UN chief pleads for countries to phase out fossil fuels
The polling industry’s professional body, the Canadian Research Insights Council, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population. A random sample of 1,000 respondents would have a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Leger found 57 per cent of respondents were at least somewhat in favour. Research Co.’s finding was 62 per cent in favour.“The numbers for each of the samples are pretty much bang on,” he said. “I feel good because everything is similar.”
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