Which is more important...

National Security or civil rights??? That is the question that was posed in this poll from the Canada National Post.

"A new poll on attitudes toward terrorism suggests many Canadians think preserving national security is more important than protecting civil liberties."

Now, those that know me know I tend to be highly skeptical of polls - at least until I can see the methodology, and I have not seen the methodology on this poll. The paper did not link to it. I assume that there were some leading questions in the poll, based on some of the reporting. However, this statement is the telling one.

"More tellingly, 62 per cent agree strongly or somewhat with the view that without national security, all other individual rights become theoretical a proposition argued last week by federal lawyer Bernard Laprade during a Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of federal security certificates."

The ACLU has to be shaking over that one...