OTTAWA - A proposed national day of air-screening rage in the United States that drew barely a whimper of protest would likely elicit an even bigger yawn in Canada, a new poll suggests.

Just one in 10 Canadian respondents in The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey expressed dissatisfaction with airport security measures.

The poll, conducted in the last week of November when media interest in American anti-security outrage was at the boil, found a remarkably complacent Canada.

Just over three-quarters of those polled said they were satisfied with security screening measures, a number that grew to 83 per cent among frequent flyer respondents who travelled three or more times in the last two years.

"The reason we went in the field was because of the uproar over the video in the States of the gentlemen who declined to go through the screening process," pollster Doug Anderson, Harris-Decima senior vice-president, said Thursday.

A 31-year-old Californian created a YouTube sensation in mid-November with cellphone footage of him refusing to submit to a full-body X-ray scan or the alternative pat down at the San Diego airport.

"If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," John Tyner told security agents before being informed he faced a $10,000 fine for leaving the screening area unchecked.

"Don't touch my junk," became a flashpoint slogan for a budding air security insurrection that fizzled on the American Thanksgiving holiday when U.S. travellers ignored en masse a campaign exhorting them to obstruct airport screeners.

The Harris-Decima telephone survey of more than 1,000 Canadian respondents took place Nov. 25-29.

It found that two in three respondents felt security processes have struck a good balance, and 61 per cent felt that such screening is a small price to pay to keep air travel safe -- a number that again went up among more frequent travellers.

Only 17 per cent felt air screening was too tough, and eight per cent felt it was too lax.

The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority received 1,520 formal complaints last year from annoyed Canadian air travellers, according to documents obtained last month by The Canadian Press.

"Degrading, embarrassing and humiliating," was the way one 56-year-old woman described her treatment at the hands of security screeners in Calgary in June 2009.

"I have no doubt the woman knows my cup size and the size of my underwear."

The litany of Canadian complaints was made public just as Harris-Decima began polling on attitudes to security screening.

"Given that we did this after that (U.S.) uproar, I certainly would have assumed we'd find the highest numbers we'd typically find on this kind of measure," Anderson noted.

"Even within that context, there was nothing in here that said to me there's a large Canadian consensus view that airport screening was too rigid."

Despite increased screening measures, a majority of respondents -- 52 per cent -- felt air travel is about as safe as it was 10 years ago, while 31 per cent think it's safer, and 16 per cent believe it's more dangerous.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times in 20.