Janet Brown
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Oct 22, 2026
Tyler MeredithPANELIST
And that was their worry.
Tyler MeredithPANELIST
And so the fact that we didn't get anywhere close to that, right, it was exactly the 75-25 that the two of you predicted that Janet Brown's polling
Shannon PhillipsHOST
showed, etc., etc.
Tyler MeredithPANELIST
The fact that that turned out to be the case and turnout was relatively strong.
Leela AheerGUEST
So we spent $130 million to... answer questions that the government can do whatever they want with regardless and I couple of things, so the on the question 10, this is the same result 2575 that we've had for quarter century.
Leela AheerGUEST
We could have probably hired somebody like Janet Brown or an awesome pollster and spent a couple million dollars and asked Albertans and gotten the same result, I think.
Leela AheerGUEST
So just to get the same result that we've had.
Leela AheerGUEST
And even out of that 25%, many of them, especially people I spoke to, were using that terminology of sending Ottawa a message, right? It wasn't necessarily on the referendum piece.
Lauren McGinnisHOST
Jared Wesley is a professor of political science at the University of Alberta.
Lauren McGinnisHOST
He leads the U of A's Common Ground Initiative, and Janet Brown is a pollster and political commentator with Janet Brown Opinion Research.
Lauren McGinnisHOST
Hello to you both.
Janet BrownGUEST
Hi.
24 MINS LATER
Lauren McGinnisHOST
Janet, can you come in from the top rope with the data?
Janet BrownGUEST
Well, uh, okay.
Janet BrownGUEST
So I, I bill myself as a pollster and a political commentator, and as a pollster, I can tell you, yes, she's taken-- her, her popularity has taken a hit.
Janet BrownGUEST
As a commentator, though, I can tell you that, you know, th- this is, this is a s- uh, something she thought she strategically needed to do to, to hang on to her leadership.
Kyle RisiHOST
But of course, I'd like to tease it out for you.
Kyle RisiHOST
Adam, on the morning of Friday the 21st of October 1966, 10-year-old Janet Brown told her mother Marilyn that she was not going to school.
Kyle RisiHOST
Janet had already tried to pull the shtick the previous evening and Marilyn understood why.
Kyle RisiHOST
It was, after all, the last day of term and Janet was desperate to begin her week off a few hours early.
Ian HanomansingHOST
So listen, when you're in British Columbia and you're watching this referendum from afar and people talk about polling, Kathleen, they just keep mentioning one name over and over again.
Ian HanomansingHOST
Janet Brown, Janet Brown.
Ian HanomansingHOST
You should talk to Janet Brown.
Ian HanomansingHOST
So I was doing the National on I think last Wednesday and we interviewed Janet Brown and she's in our studio right now.
Ian HanomansingHOST
And I'm going to start before I ask you the first question.
Ian HanomansingHOST
citing somebody else's poll, a Leger poll showing, I hope that's okay, showing 70% of Albertans want to stay in Canada.
8 MINS LATER
Janet BrownGUEST
Right.
Ian HanomansingHOST
Well, you prove every time you speak why you're the gold standard when it comes to polling and analysis here in Alberta.
Tim PowersHOST
We're gonna keep the coverage of the Alberta referendum going.
Tim PowersHOST
We'll replay an interview Russell did this morning with a woman by the name of Janet Brown.
Tim PowersHOST
Janet Brown is an Alberta-based pollster believed to be the foremost expert on public opinion data in Alberta.
Tim PowersHOST
If you didn't hear it this morning or you wanna hear it again, stand by for that around four thirty.
Tim PowersHOST
We're gonna talk to Murray, who is running for a seat on the Botwood Council.
16 MINS LATER
Tim PowersHOST
You heard that appeal here.
Tim PowersHOST
The official date of a referendum about immigration, the economy, the Senate, as well as a mandate for Alberta to leave Confederation are all up for a vote on Monday.
Tim PowersHOST
Ahead of Monday's vote, what do the polls indicate, and what could be the future of separatism in Alberta? Janet Brown, Alberta's top pollster, joined VOCM's Russell Bowers earlier today from her office in Calgary.
Mitch SylvestreGUEST
So let me ask you, let me ask you just a second on that.
Shaye GanamHOST
How would answering a poll from Janet Brown lead to your bank account being closed? I mean, 75% of the people who responded to those polls, how on earth are you making that connection?
Mitch SylvestreGUEST
Well, I'm not making that connection.
Mitch SylvestreGUEST
You know where I stand.
Stephen CarterHOST
And you could also have the exit ramp that says, oh, just yes to the nine.
Stephen CarterHOST
But Janet Brown's polling, which is the closest that we've gotten to this.
Stephen CarterHOST
To your model.
Stephen CarterHOST
To the on-ramp, you know, to the two on-ramp ideas, right, or off-ramps.
Stephen CarterHOST
Janet Brown's polling has us at 27, I want to say, might be 26.
Stephen CarterHOST
And so no to the nine is 27.
Stephen CarterHOST
Yes to the nine is five.
Shannon PhillipsHOST
All the teenagers got bored and left, right? And you're hearing anecdotally
Ian HanomansingHOST
So listen, when you're in British Columbia and you're watching this referendum from afar and people talk about polling, Kathleen, they just keep mentioning one name over and over again.
Ian HanomansingHOST
Janet Brown.
Ian HanomansingHOST
Janet Brown.
Ian HanomansingHOST
You should talk to Janet Brown.
Ian HanomansingHOST
So I was doing the National on I think last Wednesday and we interviewed Janet Brown and she's in our studio right now.
Ian HanomansingHOST
And I'm going to start before I ask you the first question.
Ian HanomansingHOST
citing somebody else's poll, a Leger poll showing, I hope that's okay, showing 70% of Albertans want to stay in Canada.
8 MINS LATER
Janet BrownGUEST
Yeah.
Murray MandrykPANELIST
You're not moving vote.
Murray MandrykPANELIST
Uh, you look at what Janet Brown is saying, and one of the more fascinating things she's saying is that all but 4% of people seem to be decided on which way they're going.
Murray MandrykPANELIST
So you're not moving people at this particular point one way or, or the other.
Murray MandrykPANELIST
If there's 20% people that think it's a good idea to pursue the separatist path, that doesn't seem to change, and I don't think Mark Carney being there is going to change much of anything.
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