Poll: Ontarians Blast OLG Plan; Liberals' Popularity Falling

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Published: March 15, 2012 04:39 pm EDT

A scientific poll conducted this week has found that 69 per cent of Ontarians are not in favour of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s recently-approved plan to open new gaming facilities in cities like Toronto and Ottawa

. The poll also found that the popularity of the Ontario Liberal Government is plummeting.

“There’s very little they (Ontarians) actually like in this OLG remake,” Forum Research President Lorne Bozinoff, whose company was commissioned to run the poll, was quoted as saying in a report by the Toronto Star.

The poll, which queried 1,065 of the province's residents, found that only 24 per cent of Ontarians actually agree with the provincial Liberals' plans to build new gaming facilities in cities like Toronto and Ottawa.

According to the Toronto Star, the poll has also found that the province's Progressive Conservative Party, led by Tim Hudak, currently sits with a 40-per-cent approval rate, ahead of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberal Party, which has rung is at 28 per cent. Ontario's New Democratic Party, led by Andrea Horwath, currently sit at 23 per cent, while the Green Party of Mike Schreiner is at eight per cent.

The poll also found that 71 per cent of respondents disapproved of the OLG's plan to privatize the provincial gambling industry.

The article has also quoted Bozinoff as saying, “I don’t think the Drummond Report went over that well, and if this is an attempt to generate revenue to help address stuff in the Drummond Report, it’s not going over well, either.”

(With files from the Toronto Star)

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