Public Opinion Research

VIII.    Performance of Government on Community Issues

C. Visibility of the Federal Government

Clearly, the performance of the federal government in responding to local community issues and concerns is closely linked with the perceived visibility of the federal government.

Over one-half (55%) of Canadians do not see much visible evidence that the federal government is working to improve the quality of life in their communities. By contrast, about 1-in-5 (21%) believe that there are visible signs of the federal government's involvement in the community.

Interestingly, there is virtually no variance in terms of region, community size, income, age, education or gender. In fact, Quebecers are really no different than the residents of other regions when to comes to the perceptions that the federal government is not particularly visible in working to improve the quality of life in their community.

Figure 43

Impression of Federal Government's Involvement in Community

				National Total (n=4200) %	Region					Community Size
					Ontario (n=1444) %	Quebec (n=851) %	Atlantic (n=400) %	Prairies (n=833) %	BC/North (n=672) %	< 50K (n=800) %	50K - 100K (n=800) %	100K - 500K (n=800) %	500K - 1M (n=800) %	1M+ (n=1000) %
Total Agree				55	54	54	56	56	58	57	57	53	57	54
Strongly agree (7)				19	17	20	23	18	21	23	18	19	18	19
Somewhat agree (6,5)				36	37	34	33	38	37	34	39	34	39	35

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