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12 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The initial results of our post-election survey are in 👇🧵 Thank you to the 4,700 of you who participated. There's clearly a lot to unpack, so we're hosting an election debrief event on Oct 26 to map out where the progressive movement should go next: broadbentinstitute.ca/election_debri…
Survey results:
We asked you how you participated in the election:
We asked what your top issues were during #Election2021:
Here's what you would like to see us working on in the future:

#cdnpoli
More insights and results to follow.

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