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Calgary 2016

CALGARY LEADERSHIPFORUM

Mainstreet surveyed 1,020 Calgarians by live interviewers from February 23ndto February 25th, 2016. A mixture of landlines and cell phones were surveyed.

Margin of error: +/- 3.07%, 19 times out of 20.

Results were weighed by age and gender based on the 2011 Census.


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Calgary Leadership ForumCALGARY LEADERSHIP FORUM RELEASES CALGARY SURVEY RESULTS

March 21st (Calgary, AB) - The Calgary Leadership Forum is releasing the results of an extensiurvey looking at key issues affecting Calgary. The survey conducted by Mainstreet Research h

a margin of error of +/- 3.07%, 19 times out of 20.

I was not surprised to see the high percentage of voters pessimistic of their own financial

tatus and the state of the economy in Alberta. We are entering into an another year or two

years of grave uncertainty as to our economic well being,” said James Maxim of the CalgaryLeadership Forum.

The Calgary Next project is being followed by a large percentage of Voters at 64% which I fin

very interesting,” he continued. “Almost half of Calgarians (48%) say it should be the FlamesOwnership that should pay for CalgaryNext. 1/5 have not made up their mind yet as to whethegovernment should be involved, but the trend is pretty clear that many are opposed to taxpaynvolvement in this project.”

Highlights62% approve of Neheed Nenshi’s performance as Mayor.37% of Calgarians are pessimistic about their families financial situation.

67% are pessimistic about the state of the Alberta economy.64% approve of adding flouride to Calgary’s drinking water.

64% of Calgarians are following the Calgary Next development story.43% approve and 44% oppose the Calgary Next Project

48% think that the Calgary Flames Ownership should pay for the project

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Available for Phone Interview: James Maxim, 403.973.8900, [email protected]

ABOUT THE CALGARY LEADERSHIP FORUMThe Calgary Leadership Forum is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the Citizens

Calgary. The Calgary Leadership forum is well known for being civic leaders and organizorums for residents including most recently an all candidates debate for Calgary Greenway.

The Calgary Leadership Forum plans to organize several debates for Calgary’s 2017 munici

election cycle and to engage candidates and citizenry alike on several important city issues.

ABOUT MAINSTREETMainstreet is a national public research firm. With 20 years of political experience at all three lev

of government, President and CEO Quito Maggi is a respected commentator on Canadian puaffairs.

Differentiated by its large sample sizes, Mainstreet has provided accurate snapshots of pu

opinion, having predicted a majority NDP government in Alberta (2015), a majority Libegovernment in British Columbia, and a majority Liberal government in Ontario. Most recen

Mainstreet was the most accurate pollster of November’s Toronto mayoral election.


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Do you approve or disapprove of the way Naheed Nenshi is handling his job as mayor?

TOTAL APPROVAL: 62% TOTAL DISAPPROVAL: 32% NOT SURE: 5%

STRONGLY APPROVESOMEWHAT APPROVESOMEWHAT DISAPPROVESTRONGLY DISAPPROVENOT SURE

SAMPLE

18-34

46%13%16%17%8%

196

35-49

47%24%11%14%3%

248

50-64

40%20%16%21%3%

286

65+

33%23%19%20%5%

290

Fema

45%20%14%16%5%

568

Male

41%19%16%19%5%

452

62%

32%

5%


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STRONGLY APPROVESOMEWHAT APPROVE

SOMEWHAT DISAPPROVESTRONGLY DISAPPROVE

NOT SURE

18-3422%33%

15%13%

17%

35-4914%45%

16%19%

6%

50-6415%42%

21%18%

4%

65+10%44%

25%15%

6%

Fema18%41%

15%16%

10%

Male15%39%

21%17%

8%

Thinking about Calgary City Council, do you approve or disapprove of the way it is handling its job?

Calgary LeadershipForum

56%

34%

9%


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STRONGLY APPROVESOMEWHAT APPROVE

SOMEWHAT DISAPPROVESTRONGLY DISAPPROVE

NOT SURE

18-3419%41%

19%6%

16%

35-4913%37%

17%19%

13%

50-6417%40%

14%17%

12%

65+16%34%

20%16%

14%

Fema13%47%

14%12%

14%

Male19%30%

21%16%

14%

Thinking about your local city councilor, do you approve or disapprove of the way they are handling their jo


55%

31%

14%


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Thinking about the next 12 months, would you say you feel optimistic or pessimistic about your own famifinancial situation?


OPTIMISTIC: 35% PESSIMISTIC: 37% NOT SURE: 28%

OPTIMISTICPESSIMISTIC

NOT SURE

18-34

30%33%

37%

35-49

33%45%

22%

50-64

43%39%

17%

65+

39%27%

35%

Fema

38%35%

27%

Male

33%40%

28%

35%

37%

28%


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OPTIMISTIC: 17% PESSIMISTIC: 67% NOT SURE: 17%

OPTIMISTICPESSIMISTIC

NOT SURE

18-34

24%56%

19%

35-49

9%76%

15%

50-64

18%70%

13%

65+

11%69%

20%

Fema

15%69%

15%

Male

18%64%

18%

Thinking about the next 12 months, would you say you feel optimistic or pessimistic about the state of Alberta economy?


17%

67%

17%


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TOTAL APPROVAL:64% TOTAL DISAPPROVAL: 22% NOT SURE: 14%

STRONGLY APPROVE

SOMEWHAT APPROVESOMEWHAT DISAPPROVESTRONGLY DISAPPROVE

NOT SURE

18-3435%

18%12%12%

23%

35-4948%

19%6%15%

12%

50-6463%

12%4%15%

6%

65+49%

19%11%16%

6%

Fema41%

16%8%18%

17%

Male53%

18%8%11%

10%

From everything you have seen, heard or read, do you approve or disapprove of adding fluoride to Calgar

Drinking Water?


64%

22%

14%


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FOLLOWING: 64% NOT FOLLOWING: 31% NOT SURE: 4%

VERY CLOSELY

SOMEWHAT CLOSELYNOT TOO CLOSELYNOT AT ALL CLOSELY

NOT AWARE OF THIS STORY

18-3417%

33%23%23%

3%

35-4927%

42%17%7%

7%

50-6429%

49%16%6%

1%

65+21%

47%20%7%

4%

Fema12%

41%28%16%

3%

Male35%

42%10%8%

5%

As you may have heard, the ownership group of the Calgary Flames has proposed a new $890-million projecalled CalgaryNext with an arena, field house and stadium development for the west end of the downtow

How closely have you been following this story?


64%

31%

4%


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STRONGLY APPROVE

SOMEWHAT APPROVESOMEWHAT DISAPPROVESTRONGLY DISAPPROVE

NOT SURE

18-3412%

38%29%6%

16%

35-4914%

27%20%25%

14%

50-6416%

25%18%34%

6%

65+5%

25%23%29%

17%

Fema10%

26%28%21%

15%

Male15%

34%17%21%

12%

Thinking about everything you have seen or heard about Calgary Next, do you support the project or oppthe project?


43%

44%

13%


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In your view, how should CalgaryNext be funded?


FLAMES OWNERSHIP: 48% GOV AND OWNERSHIP: 31% NOT SURE: 21%

FLAMES OWNERSHIPBOTH THE FLAMES AND THE GOVERNMENT

NOT SURE

18-3438%30%

32%

35-4952%35%

13%

50-6458%31%

11%

65+50%24%

26%

Fema40%31%

29%

Male57%31%

12%

48%

31%

21%


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Do you approve or disapprove of the way Naheed Nenshi is handling his job as mayor?

Strongly approve

Somewhat approveSomewhat disapproveStrongly disapprove

Not Sure

Thinking about Calgary City Council, do you approve or disapprove of the way it is handling its job

Strongly approve

Somewhat approveSomewhat disapproveStrongly disapprove

Not Sure

Thinking about your local city councilor, do you approve or disapprove of the way they are handlin

their job?

Strongly approveSomewhat approve

Somewhat disapprove

Strongly disapproveNot Sure

Thinking about the next 12 months, would you say you feel optimistic or pessimistic about your owfamily’s financial situation?

Optimistic

PessimisticNot Sure

Thinking about the next 12 months, would you say you feel optimistic or pessimistic about the statethe Alberta economy?

Optimistic

PessimisticNot Sure

A


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From everything you have seen, heard or read, do you approve or disapprove of adding fluoride to

Calgary’s Drinking Water?

Strongly approveSomewhat approve

Somewhat disapproveStrongly disapprove

Not Sure

As you may have heard, the ownership group of the Calgary Flames has proposed a new $890-milli

project called CalgaryNext with an arena, field house and stadium development for the west end of t

downtown. How closely have you been following this story?

Very closely

Somewhat closelyNot too closely

Not at all closelyNot aware of this story

Thinking about everything you have seen or heard about Calgary Next, do you support the project oppose the project?

Strongly approveSomewhat approveSomewhat disapprove

Strongly disapproveNot Sure

In your view, how should CalgaryNext be funded?

Paid for by Flames OwnershipBy both the Flames and the Government

Not Sure

A


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Mainstreet is a national public research firm. With 20 years of political experience at all thr

levels of government, President and CEO Quito Maggi is a respected commentator on Canadi

public affairs.

Differentiated by its large sample sizes, Mainstreet Research has provided accurate snapshots

public opinion, having predicted a majority NDP government in Alberta, a majority Liber

government in British Columbia and a majority Liberal government in Ontario. Mainstreet h

been the most accurate polling firm in several by elections and the most recent Toronto mayoelection. Most recently, Mainstreet was the only polling firm to correctly predict a Liberal major

government in the 2015 federal election.

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