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The question is: Did AGB McNair HK Ltd. frame this
Questionnaire on its own accord; or had it been instructed to
copy or at least base the questionnaire on the summary of the
Green Paper? If the former, then there is a clear case of AGB
McNair HK Ltd. failing to discharge its professional duty of
implications are much
more
care towards the Survey Office, its principal. But if the
latter is the case, then the
serious, for it would suggest that the Government had
deliberately wanted to engineer a particular result, namely,
that the people of Hong Kong do not want to see direct
elections introduced in 1988. Many people in Hong Kong firmly
believe that the result contained in the two public opinion
surveys was precisely what China and the British Administration
here wanted to see,
to see, for that would spare the British government
of having to confront China over an
political issue. But the question is: can
these survey results?
extremely sensitive
we possibly accept
"No"
at
page
41.
elections
Fairness
to the Legislative Council are
would have demanded
I suggest that the answer has to be a resounding
Let us look briefly at paragraph 163 of the Green
Sub-paragraph (ii) reads: "to conclude that direct
Paper
not desirable."
another
question
to follow it,
namely, "to conclude that direct
Council are desirable."
elections to
the
Legislative
"