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Aboriginal Issues Dept: However, the same survey showed Canadians have a dimmer view of the force when it comes to its leadership and its ability to communicate. And less than 60 per cent of First Nations respondents said the force was responsive to aboriginal issues, according to Vancouver Sun. According to the survey results, which are posted on a government website, 81 per cent of Canadians believe RCMP personnel are honest and 88 per cent believe they carry out their duties with professionalism. While those numbers are an improvement over the previous year, they are lower than the 91 to 93 per cent of Canadians who held those feelings five years earlier and more than 80 per cent of Canadians believe Canada's Mounties are honest and work with integrity and professionalism, according to an annual survey gauging satisfaction with the national police force. The Harris/Decima survey involving 7,000 Canadians took place over June and July 2011, before the appointment of a new commissioner and before the emergence of a sexual harassment scandal involving the force. A margin of error was not provided. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.