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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada is broken while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it isn’t.
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A Leger/Postmedia poll released Thursday found it’s no contest — 70% of Canadians surveyed agreed with the statement “it feels like everything is broken in the country right now”, compared to 27% who disagreed.
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Even 43% of Liberal voters said it feels like everything’s broken, along with 85% of Conservative voters, 66% of NDP voters and 58% of BQ supporters.
Adding to the Trudeau government’s woes, 59% said they’re angry with “how Canada is being managed by the federal government today”, compared to only 33% who say they’re happy with it.
To be fair, Canadians told Leger that the issues that concern them the most — rising costs and inflation, the state of health care, affording a place to live and interest rates — are subject to forces the federal government only partly controls.
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Inflation, for example, is also subject to global forces and health care is run by the provinces.
But that said, it’s clear disillusionment with the Trudeau government runs deep.
Pollster Nik Nanos said Wednesday his surveys show most Canadians aren’t even considering the possibility of voting for the Trudeau Liberals right now — with only 36.2% saying they might do so, compared to 50% to 60% prior to the 2015 election when they won a majority government.
“That means a majority of Canadians don’t even have them on the radar as a vote choice,” Nanos told CTV News.
An Angus Reid Institute survey released Thursday found the Conservatives are 17 points ahead of the Liberals in national voter support — 40% compared to 23%, with the NDP close behind the Liberals at 21%.
But the most worrisome finding for the Liberals in this poll is that not only are the Conservatives in the lead in every province except Quebec, but that in Quebec, where the BQ leads, the Conservatives are in second place, ahead of the Liberals.
While it’s only a two-point spread and within the survey’s margin of error (23% for the Conservatives and 21% for the Liberals, with the BQ in front at 36% and the NDP at 16%) a third-place finish in Quebec in next year’s election would be a disaster for Trudeau and the Liberals.
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