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A new survey shows Calgarians aren’t particularly pleased with city council’s performance, though scores for individual council members are relatively positive.

A survey commissioned by the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and the Canadian Municipal Election Survey says just 37 per cent of Calgarians report being satisfied with city council’s general performance.

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“There’s a real gap between their satisfaction with the performance of these individuals and their satisfaction with the performance of the institution, city council in general,” said Jack Lucas, the author behind the report and a professor of political science at the U of C.

“It may be that people think that the institution is kind of dysfunctional, but their own councillor is probably doing his or her best to make it better, not worse.”

Around 2,000 people were surveyed through a combination of random digit dialing and online surveys across all 14 municipal wards.