Poll-Happy Tories Award $1-Million Contract for Drug-Prevention Surveys
Posted on: Monday, 7 January 2008, 18:00 CST
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA - Canada's most poll-reliant government is spending $1 million on polling services to help guide its drug-prevention strategy for youth.
The Conservative government has awarded Ottawa-based Environics Research Group the contract to conduct continuing surveys of 13-to 15-year-olds and parents.
The award document, released Monday, says public-opinion research is needed to help develop and implement the strategy and the messages it delivers.
The government also wants Environics to develop methods to track drug awareness and monitor the strategy's success in reducing illicit drug use among youth.
The Tories introduced legislation in November to toughen drug-related penalties, including imposing two-year mandatory jail sentences on traffickers of hard drugs and large-scale marijuana growers.
Last month, an independent investigator reported the Conservatives spent $31.2 million on public-opinion research in the year leading up to his government-commissioned probe.
That's 546 public-opinion research projects, worth almost twice the $18 million a year the Liberals averaged on polling between 1993 and 2006.
Source: Canadian Press
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