I did as Ezra Levant suggested and ran through the survey giving it no data. Non-surprisingly it set me at the middle of the plot:
How is this surprising to anyone? The Liberals are Canada's centrist party.
In some irony, the NDP are the outliers. And the CBC is a socialist plot to control the nation's minds right?
edit: actually, doing this is kinda fun. Set all responses to zero and then toggle everything off on the right ("which issues are important"). The liberal icon sure bounces around A LOT. Kinda what you expect from them... Their platform is "please, just vote for me, I'll do anything you want"
Attempting to suggest collusion between the CBC and the Liberals based on this only results in Levant looking even more of a moron then he already is. And really, anyone trying to pass a Levant opinion piece off as actual journalism needs to go back to school and re-take critical thinking. Using his logic, I could turn around and suggest that the Toronto Sun is OBVIOUSLY biased to the CPC because Levant has been working for the Reform Party for decades.
According to the Privacy Statement
http://federal.votecompass.ca/privacy/ : "While Vote Compass provides analysis of aggregate responses to the questionnaire for its media sponsors, i.e. CBC News and Radio-Canada, it will under no circumstances disclose to either party individual-level respondent data."
Suggests to me that CBC wants to have a gimmik on Election Night in Canada where they can compare the real time results to projections made using the info gathered in this survey. Likely used in conjunction with other poll data. It's a poll. Don't like it, don't use it.
And yes, the language allows the data owners to share mass results with anyone, including the political parties. For all anyone knows, the data is being given out to any party that asks. The suggestion of collusion is pure conjecture - Levant is claiming prophetic knowledge based entirely on correlation. If an actual journalist (preferably more then one) produces a piece with actual evidence of collusion, then there is cause for alarm, but for now, it's just one crazy right-wing columnist attacking the CBC again.