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VICTORIA — The New Democrats are refusing to release key information about their survey of public opinion on electoral reform, including how the questions were shaped and detailed breakdowns of the incoming answers from the public.

The online survey itself can be read as steering public opinion toward a favourable view of the NDP preference for proportional representation.

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But in justifying the contents last week, Attorney-General David Eby cited the “assistance” of a quartet of academic advisers, who “reviewed the questionnaire.”

Three of the four academics were on record as having expressed major concerns about the existing electoral system of first past the post.

Only one was a strong defender of the status quo system that Eby, his NDP colleagues and Green partners-in-power sharing are campaigning to overturn.

The four experts submitted their feedback in writing. Would the ministry make that correspondence public, so it would be possible to determine to what degree they approved the questions and to what degree the government accepted their advice?