Public Opinion
In October 2009, EKOS Research Associates conducted a survey of 1,647 Canadians ages 16 and over to measure public outlook on and support for developing a high speed rail system in Canada. The survey found that 80 per cent of respondents supported introducing high speed rail in Canada (including 62 per cent who “strongly supported it), while only 6 per cent were opposed.
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“Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)