The latest poll on the COVID-19 pandemic found that 41 per cent of respondents to a new poll by by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies believe school children should be required to wear a mask while they're on the bus or in the school.
A further 21 per cent said yes to masks, but only when a student is outside of class during recess, lunch or if on the bus — suggesting they were OK with students taking off their masks once in class and not in common areas.
There was also a group of respondents, accounting for 28 per cent, who believed masks should be optional.
The Leger online poll of 1,524 Canadians over age 18 took place July 17 to 19.
The poll cannot be given a margin of error because it is not a random sample.
The current public health advice is that non-medical masks can contain infectious particles on their wearers' breath, reducing the risk of contagion from people with COVID-19 who might not know they're carrying the illness.
AM800 News wants to know what you think, are you concerned about the health of your child when they return to school this fall?
— With files from The Canadian Press