Prince George Citizen polled 837 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Should the provincial and federal government offer financial help to the Okanagan wine industry?
The poll ran from Feb. 14 to 27. Of the 837 votes, we can determine that 500 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Yes, it's an essential part of the B.C. economy 18.80% local, 16.85% total
Yes, but wineries accepting support should have to switch to more resilient grape varieties 9.60% local, 9.44% total
Not sure 10.00% local, 9.92% total
No, the money should go to affected municipal governments to hand out 3.80% local, 4.66% total
No, that's the ups and downs of a weather-dependent business 57.80% local, 59.14% total
Local Total
Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.37%, 19 times out of 20.
Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
