It is now March 2012 and they are still doing this so-called survey. I got a call last evening and I was shocked that they knew my first name as I am not listed as such in the Videotron directory. I felt bad refusing so I went along with it but immediately stopped when they wanted to know how many people lived at my place, my mode of transportatin BUT also what time I left my home in the morning!!!!! I stopped her right there in her tracks and asked her if she also needed to know what time I return from my work! She kept insisting that the information was confidential...and we all now that confidentiality is something of the past with today's high technologies. I do not like this sort of call and in the future I will refuse from the onset to partake in any such research. Better be safe than sorry!
I got the same survey this evening, conducted on behalf of Agence Metropolitaine de Transport. I usually do not co-operate with these things because you never know who you can trust. But tonight, I decided I would go along, only because they said the goal of the survey was to help make improvements to the "transportation" situation in the Montreal area. Anyone who travels around Mtl knows how Frustrating (with a capital F!) it can be!! Anyway....I decided to call AMT and find out if this was for real. They do in fact hire BIP (Bureau des Interviewers Professionnel) to conduct their surveys. The service agent I spoke to said that this was in fact their number. So I guess it's ok.