(Ottawa) Nearly two in three Canadians have a poor impression of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and half of them want him to resign before the next election, according to a new poll.
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While affordability, housing and the national debt top the list of reasons people want Trudeau gone, one in five respondents said the only reason they wanted him to step down was because she was “tired of him.”
The Léger poll for The Canadian Press suggests widespread dissatisfaction with the Liberal government on everything from housing affordability and inflation to health care, government spending and climate change.
The survey was conducted online in Canada for three days last weekend and 1,612 people responded. Although the results have been statistically weighted, it is not possible to assign a margin of error to them because online surveys are not truly random samples.
This result comes after months of unfavorable polls for Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals, who just passed the eighth anniversary of their 2015 election victory.
In Canada, 30% of respondents said they were satisfied with Mr. Trudeau’s government, while 63% said they were dissatisfied. In Quebec, 34% of respondents said they were satisfied with the government, while 61% were dissatisfied.
Different popularity for Poilievre
Mr. Trudeau is well ahead of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on the question of who would be the best prime minister: 27% of respondents support Mr. Poilievre, compared to 17% for Mr. Trudeau.
PHOTO ETHAN CAIRNS, CANADIAN PRESS ARCHIVE
Pierre Poilievre
Still, more Quebecers continue to believe Justin Trudeau would be a better prime minister (19%) than Mr. Poilievre (17%). The same goes for the Atlantic provinces, where the Liberal leader would be a better prime minister for 23% of respondents, while 18% think the same of Mr Poilievre.
In Canada, about a third of respondents also said they had a positive impression of Mr. Poilievre (35%) and Mr. Trudeau (33%). But 61% of respondents said they had a negative impression of Mr. Trudeau, compared to 45% who had a negative impression of Mr. Poilievre. In Quebec, more than half (51%) of people said they had a negative impression of the Conservative leader.
Mr. Poilievre, an MP for nearly 20 years and leader of the Conservative Party for just over a year, remains an unknown to some Canadians. One in five respondents said they weren’t sure whether they had a positive or negative impression of him.
According to the poll, the Conservative Party would be in first place in Canada (31%) if the election were held now. However, this would not be the case in Quebec, where she would be credited with 18% of the vote. The Bloc Québécois would receive 26% of the vote, the Liberals 23% and the NDP 10% in La Belle Province.
When it comes to NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, 43% of respondents have a positive opinion and 41% have a negative opinion, but only 16% of them said he would be the best prime minister.
Housing and inflation
More than four in five respondents said they were dissatisfied with how Mr. Trudeau had handled the issue of affordable housing, and three in four were dissatisfied with how the Liberals had handled inflation and the affordability crisis in general.
Nearly three in five people are dissatisfied with the way the government is handling climate change, two in three people are dissatisfied with the way it is managing public finances and more than half like the way the Liberals are handling Canada’s relationship China and India manage, not.
Almost 60% of the French-speaking population across Canada also believe that Justin Trudeau is not doing enough to protect the French language.
Half of Canadians surveyed said Mr. Trudeau should resign before the next election. One in four Liberal voters said they should resign. Only 28% of all respondents said he should remain in office.
Nearly three in four people said it was time for a new prime minister because Mr. Trudeau has been in power too long, while two-thirds said they did not believe he had a clear vision for the future.
A new Liberal leader would influence the vote of more than a third of respondents who said they have voted Liberal in the past but will no longer do so with Mr. Trudeau at the helm. About 10 percent of respondents said they were very likely to return to the Liberals with a new leader, and 29 percent said they were very likely to do so. However, 61% do not believe that a new manager could influence their decision.
More than one in four NDP supporters responded that they would likely change their vote in favor of the Liberals to try to prevent the Conservatives from winning.