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Originally Posted by treeroot
This is a joke.
They polled a small group of people from an area in which they knew people do not use ATV's. So of course you get 55% of people wanting more restrictions.
If you did the same survey on the same number of people, but from Fort McMurray, Cold Lake, Athabasca etc.. You would get a completely flipped result.
Want more gun restrictions? Poll 10,000 people who are not owners who have never lived anywhere but a city. Want less gun restrictions? Poll 10,000 people from rural alberta.
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I don't think you understand how scientific polls work. Make a sample of calls to all areas of Alberta weighted by population, and you get a scientifically accurate breakdown of the whole population. If you live in an echo chamber where everyone you know thinks there are no issues with ATVs on public land, you probably need to get out more, because its not the mainstream view.
Politicians are doing this all the time privately to see what the public thinks of proposed policies.
On average, it means that if they implement more restrictions, it will be more popular than if they don't and shows that the responsible ATV groups need to do a lot more work to isolate the bad apples if they want public support for their support.
And yes, all Albertans do get say in how we manage our public lands.