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Nearly nine out of 10 Quebecers support the Harper government’s anti-terror bill, a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute shows.

Bill C-51 is even more popular in Quebec (87 per cent) than nationally, where it galvanizes the support of 82 per cent of Canadians, according to the online survey of 1,500 adults on Feb. 9-11. The poll was said to be accurate within 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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While support for the bill was highest in Quebec, results there were “not significantly different than levels of support across the country,” said Shachi Kurl, senior vice-president of the Vancouver-based, not-for-profit research institute.

“It’s not like a vast amount of the population of Quebec is thinking very differently on this,” she said.

Kurl said the poll reflects public concern following October’s fatal attacks on two soldiers in Ottawa and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and international incidents like the Charlie Hebdo massacre.