Sixty per cent favour legalization of doctor-assisted suicide. Of course, fixing a kidney is one thing. Repairing a bilious organ like the Senate is something else. While 71 per cent agree it should be changed, Canadians cannot decide how to improve the Senate. The behaviour of such senators as truant Andrew Thompson does little to help the senators' cause.
Citizens are also ambivalent about the head of state.
For many people, any ember of love for the monarchy died with Diana, Princess of Wales, in that midnight tunnel in Paris. The rest care not a candle, in the wind or otherwise. Canadians are committed to the environment. One in four figures the Internet is filled with questionable material. Close to 70 per cent thought political parties are becoming less responsive to the public, and six in 10 felt the same way about individual MPs.