TNAG-1723-FCO40-2436-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 91

According to

an

extract of

the proposal from AGB

research

objective

of

the

Study

to

McNair: "The primary

is

collect public opinion on the issues (and options) discussed in

the Green Paper

options)",

The material

words

"issues are

(and

But when the Questionnaire was later drawn up by AGB

of conducting McNair, it became clear beyond doubt that instead 2 surveys on public views on the issues discussed in the Green

Paper, AGB McNair had conducted 2

the options discussed in the Green Paper.

surveys on

views public

on

The

F3

of

in issue material

whether direct elections should

Section

be

question

introduced in

was,

of

course,

1988.

But

Paper,

completely

failed

adopting

contained in the said paragraph 163 of the summary to

with

Questionnaire, the

in

the 4 options

the Green

deal to

the issue,

with the

unfortunate

result that it

was

simply

not

put

to

the

respondents.

Section F3 of

the

Questionnaire

in

relation

to

direct elections was

copied

almost word for word from

the

options

contained in the said

paragraph

163,

including the

precise order in which those options appear in the Green Paper.

According to the experts, therefore, this

subtle but

unwarranted

change of

emphasis

from "issues" to "options" has