Yes, one size doesn't fit all. Canada has been lucky in the way it developed through consensus decision-making, Saskatchewan itself producing Canada's universal medicare and a conservative prime minister as a major force in proclaiming our rights and freedoms. Resentment lingers in the West from our current prime minister's father Pierre's National Energy Plan, which hurt the oil-rich provinces on the prairies, badly. As for accuracy of the mentioned polls, you've answered the question with your observation, applying equally where you live, that majorities of the more populous centres make the rules, like it or not.