I think the question was "Do you support the Death Penalty for Homicide?" Pretty straight forward. It was taken in Jan 2010. Angus Reid is a highly respected in the polling business.
If you work on a Line Crew ask the same question, I'm pretty sure that you will get the same result.
I have some reservations about it, but like some people have been posting on here, I just don't see any way around it. Our incarceration/crime rate in Canada is so low that I quess it's easy for us to just lock these people up.
As far as the US is concerned, yes we do find humour among ourselves, sort of the way that you joke about the 'hay wire' relative. But in the end of the day, we know that our survival and continued prosperity is mutual.
The part that is frustrating is that they could learn some things from us. My Dad had a saying, "it's a poor man that you can't learn something from". I've always tried to keep that in mind.
Our form of Government is less open to corruption and crazyness and through time Canadians just have a calmer approach to things.
Finally I appreciate your candidness, but that's where you and I are quite different. I find people that have divergent views from myself to be very interesting. I like to sit down and talk with them to see where they are 'coming from' etc. That's what makes life ineresting. for me