34% favour Reform-Conservative merger

A public opinion poll indicated that 34% of Canadians, or approximately 1/3 of the voting population, support the merger of the Reform Party with the Progressive Conservative Party. Such an alliance might give the opposition its best chance of beating the governing Liberal Party in the next federal election given that 23% viewed the Conservatives as the best alternative to the Liberals while 21% viewed the Reform Party as the best alternative. However, 41% disapprove of a Reform-Conservative merger while 26% has no opinion.