Sirius Canada went out and commissioned a study of Canadians to find out the level of support from the public, and guess what? 76% of Canadian respondants support the CRTC’s decision to grant satellite radio licenses to Sirus Canada and Canadian Satellite Radio.

The majority of lobbying opposition has been from French-language arts groups in Quebec, but yet only 21% of Quebecers feel the federal cabinet should overturn the CRTC’s decision. 69% of Quebecers actually support the ruling. 27% of Quebec respondents strong feel that the prospect of having Quebec artists heard all over North America outweigh the prospect of American/English channels threatening Quebec culture.

There’s also a very strong interest in satellite radio in Canada coming from younger Canadians, with 1/3 (yes, 33%) of Canadians under the age of 35 interested in becoming subscribers to one of the two satellite radio services.

One recent Orbitcast comment had the genius idea to just give them French-language Hockey and they’ll be happy. Genius!