60% of Canadians Support Increased Oil and Gas Exports: Poll

60% of Canadians Support Increased Oil and Gas Exports: Poll
Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain Expansion Project lies at a stockpile site in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on June 18, 2019. Dennis Owen/Reuters
Andrew Chen
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The majority of Canadians are supportive of increasing oil exports to countries where energy production is less reliable, a recent Leger poll shows.

The poll, commissioned by the Modern Miracle Network, shows that roughly 60 percent of Canadians want to increase oil exports, a number that grew by seven percent over the last nine months after a similar survey was conducted last October.

Support grew the most among residents in Atlantic Canada (12 percent) and Ontario (11 percent), whereas Quebec was the only jurisdiction that showed substantive opposition to oil and gas exports.