Focus our study

Bentley- your question is exactly what I was thinking with regards to a perhaps vague but good indicator of where canadians head's are at when it comes to defense policy...if they even know anything about it at all. I was thinking this question could be posed first just to get a sense of the data we would be receiving and correlations to other answers e.t.c..to kind of set the stage. Thoughts???

I also agree with Jordan in that we dont want to seem condescending or arrogant while posing these questions. We dont want it to be "us" vs. "them"

"I also agree with Jordan in that we dont want to seem condescending or arrogant while posing these questions. We dont want it to be "us" vs. "them" "

That's a good point Julia, but at the same time are we surveying personal taste, knowledge, or general attitude?

Arguably a combination of all of those things. I don't think each of those (personal taste, knowledge, attitude) are independent of one another. At the end of the day I believe we are trying to see the general trends regarding voting Canadians on this issue. If Harper is acting on our wishes and our survey reflects a 'general' push to remain and fight in Afghanistan(to varying degrees) then we have a successful democracy. If not, we have a leader not acting in the interests of the majority - a clear problem.

Please refer to my question proposed as a reply to Julia's 'compartive' suggestion.

I like Bentley's question but also another route could be like a ranking question! like: Rank the following in terms of the priority they should take in the national budget: a. defence b. health care c. environmentaly friendly technologies d. something else e. somethign else

Then we could know how much they think defence is important compared to other things??