Majority of Canadians say misinformation affected federal election: poll – National [Video]

More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests.

The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major impact on the election.

Almost a third (32 per cent) said it had a moderate impact, while 26 per cent said it had a minor impact on the election’s outcome.

Only nine per cent of Canadians said misinformation had no impact on the election at all.

The poll, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, suggests that people in Alberta were the most likely to think misinformation affected the election, at 86 per cent.

Seventy-nine per cent of people in Quebec, 76 per cent of people in Ontario and 73 per cent …