Prime Minister John Horgan’s approval rating fell to its lowest level in more than two years, falling below 50 percent amid numerous health crises and outrage at a nearly $ 1 billion plan to restore the Royal Museum of British Columbia.
A quarterly approval poll released by Angus Reed on Tuesday showed Horgan’s rating dropped to 48 percent – from 55 percent a month earlier and well below the 71 percent approval he had in June 2020, months after the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the lowest approval rating of Horgan since March 2020, when it fell to 46 percent, and continues the downward trend over the past two years.
“In addition to the growing failure of the nearly $ 1 billion plan to demolish and rebuild the Royal Columbia Museum,” the Horgan government was forced to defend a lack of funding to build a new school, a shortage of family doctors and, in general, “no connection “With regular British Colombians from opposition parties,” wrote Angus Reed. “Problems – and more – continue to pile up in front of the prime minister’s office.
Worrying news about the new Democrats in British Columbia. There are still eight years left of the museum project that Horgan is pushing for, while his political opponents dine on the project and accumulate other problems facing the government.
– Rob Shaw (@RobShaw_BC) June 14, 2022
Despite his falling approval rating, Horgan is still the third most popular prime minister in the country, after only Scott Mo of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia’s Prime Minister Tim Houston, according to the poll.
Manitoba Prime Minister Heather Stephenson and Alberta Prime Minister Jason Kenny, who recently resigned as leader of the United Conservative Party, have the lowest approval ratings of 23% and 32%, respectively.
Overall, the rating movement has been declining for most prime ministers in the country, with the exception of a slight increase for Kenny and newly elected Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford.
In British Columbia, Horgan and his government have been embroiled in controversy since announcing a major project to replace RBCM, which opposition liberals have called a vanity project that diverts capital funding away from other projects, such as schools.
The government has also been accused of giving priority to the museum’s seismic priority as schools from 250 BC remain awaiting seismic repairs with limited funding from the provinces.
Meanwhile, the province is battling a continuing shortage of doctors and emergency departments are temporarily closing due to the impact of COVID-19 on health workers.
For his quarterly survey, Angus Reed conducted an online survey of 5,032 adult Canadians between June 7-13, 2022. In British Columbia, it carries a margin of error of plus or minus four percent, 19 times 20.
Source: Angus Reid Institute
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