According to Senior Vice-President Doug Anderson “For the most part Canadians give themselves and their federal government relatively good marks for responding to 9/11. Yet at the same time, Canadians display an unusual degree of self-criticism when it comes to whether the Muslim community has been treated fairly by different elements of society since the 9/11 attacks. When considered in this context, Canadians tend to agree that the government has treated the Muslim community fairly but are less decidedly of that view when it comes to the treatment of Muslims by the media or even by Canadian citizens in general.”
 

•  A majority feel Canadian citizens have adapted well to the post-9/11 world. Nationally, 81% express this view, while 11% feel Canadian citizens have not adapted well.
• Three in four (75%) feel the Canadian government has adapted well to the post-9/11 world, while 17% feel they have not.
• Two in three (66%) feel the media has adapted well, while 23% feel they have not.
• Less than half (48%) feel the US government has adapted well to the post-9/11 world, while 43% feel they have not.
• A similar number (45%) feel American citizens have adapted well, while 44% feel they have not.
• Canadians feel Muslims are being treated fairly by most groups since 9/11.
• Six in ten (60%) feel Muslims have been treated fairly by government, while 24% feel Muslims have been treated unfairly.
• A majority (53%) feel police have treated Muslims fairly, while 33% feel the police have treated Muslims unfairly.
• Roughly half (49%) feel ordinary Canadians have treated Muslims fairly, while 39% disagreed.
• Around the same number (48%) believe the media has treated Muslims fairly, while 41% disagreed.
• A plurality feels that claims details about the September 11th attacks are being purposely hidden from the public are not credible. Nationally, 47% express this view, while 42% feel these claims are credible. The credibility of such claims is most popular in Quebec and BC, among those under ht age of 35, and those with household incomes lower than $100k/year.
   

Each week, Harris/Decima interviews just over 1000 Canadians through teleVox, the company’s national telephone omnibus survey. The most recent data were gathered between September 1 and September 4, 2011. A sample of the same size has a margin of error of 3.1%, 19 times out of 20.