Figure 15: Views on political parties' collection and use of personal information

This horizontal bar chart depicts electors' level of agreement with the following three statements: “Laws should regulate how political parties collect and use Canadians' personal information,” “It is important for political parties to collect and use personal information about Canadians in order to communicate with them” and “Political parties can be trusted to collect and use the personal information of Canadians in a responsible way.” The breakdown is as follows:

• Total
  • Laws should regulate how political parties collect and use Canadians' personal information
    • Strongly agree: 70%
    • Somewhat agree: 23%
    • Somewhat disagree: 3%
    • Strongly disagree: 1%
    • Don't know: 3%
  • It is important for political parties to collect and use personal information about Canadians in order to communicate with them
    • Strongly agree: 15%
    • Somewhat agree: 41%
    • Somewhat disagree: 26%
    • Strongly disagree: 14%
    • Don't know: 4%
  • Political parties can be trusted to collect and use the personal information of Canadians in a responsible way
    • Strongly agree: 9%
    • Somewhat agree: 43%
    • Somewhat disagree: 30%
    • Strongly disagree: 14%
    • Don't know: 4%