The expression is used in Québec to refer to a good guy. Guy A. Lepage, host of the popular TV show Tout le monde en parle on SRC, called Jack Layton un bon Jack during his appearance on the show in 2008.
It seems more Quebeckers think this bon Jack deserves their vote this time than Gilles does.
The CROP poll for La Presse had many people talking this week. The NDP is clearly gaining ground in Québec but there’s something a bit odd about the CROP poll when you read the fine print. Blogger Peter Rukavina writes about the methodology. Here’s an excerpt:
If, in fact, this was an actual poll as we were led to believe by the CBC panel, this would indeed be a big
deal; it wasn’t until I returned to the topic this morning through an article in the Toronto Star, NDP jumps ahead of Bloc in Quebec: Poll, that I read, way down in the last paragraph:
The survey of 1,000 Quebecers online took place between April 13 and 20. Due to its non-random character, there is no margin of error.
This is echoed in La Presse in its article Le NPD prend la tête au Québec:
Ce sondage mené en ligne ne comporte pas de marge d’erreur compte tenu du caractère non probabiliste de l’échantillon.
In its reporting today the CBC has changed the language from “poll” to “online survey.” For example, in Bloc changes tactics to deal with NDP surge they report:
An online survey done by CROP, which the company said cannot be assigned a margin of error because the methodology doesn’t allow for random sampling, shook up the race in Quebec overnight Thursday, showing a surge for the NDP.
However reliable this poll or online survey of volunteer respondents might be, it’s sure to make the Jack and Gilles show most interesting until May 2nd.
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