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A large majority of Canadians — even among Conservative supporters — think the Conservative government’s planned memorial to the victims of communism is a poor idea, a poll has found.

Across the country, just 23 per cent of Canadians said they would support the Memorial to Victims of Communism “in its current form after they were shown design plans for the monument, to be erected near the Supreme Court in Ottawa,” the EKOS polling firm reported in a poll commissioned by the website iPolitics.

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Some 27 per cent said they somewhat opposed the memorial and 51 per cent said they strongly opposed it. In the National Capital Region, that opposition rises to 83 per cent of people polled — 63 per cent who strongly oppose it and 19 per cent who somewhat oppose it. Just four per cent of those polled — both Canada-wide and in the capital region — said they strongly support the memorial.

Voters who identified themselves as Conservatives were slightly more supportive of the memorial than voters who identified with other parties. But, still, the majority of Conservative voters polled by EKOS — 63 per cent — said they opposed it.