No surprises with this poll.

A Leger poll reported in the Canadian Jewish News reports this bit of Quebec poll trivia;

Thirty-eight per cent of Quebecers think 9/11 was at least partly the result of Israel’s actions in the Middle East, the highest of any region of Canada, according to a poll commissioned by the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies (ACS).

Overall, 31 per cent of all Canadians, including Quebecers, hold the same opinion. When Quebec responses are deducted from the national total, about 27 per cent of the rest of Canada think Israel’s actions were a “primary cause” of 9/11. ACS director Jack Jedwab said the more than 10-point spread on this question between Quebecers and other Canadians is significant.

In addition, the great majority of Quebecers, more than three-quarters – well above the Canadian average of 63 per cent – believe the Sept. 11 attacks were also at least in part caused by U.S. foreign policy. When Quebec is compared to the rest of Canada alone, the spread is about 20 per cent, which Jedwab also sees as a wide gap.

An equal proportion of Quebecers and Canadians as a whole, about two-thirds, said a primary cause of 9/11 was a reaction of Islamic fundamentalism against the West. “While the proportion of all Canadians citing the U.S. and Israel as bearing some of the blame for 9/11 is quite high, the results suggest that other Canadians do see the problem as more multidimensional than Quebecers,” he said.

I really do not put much stock in polls in general, but I gather I would be able to safely conclude that Quebec’s love affair with anti-Semitism has yet to come to a well deserved end, and a significant proportion of Quebecers are not only out of touch, but out of sync with the thinking in the rest of country – surprise, surprise.

h/t: Iris Blog