Poll: Time for a different prime minister?
Castanets – January 31, 2023 / 7:30 pm | History: 409194
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In February, Ottawa will host a long-awaited meeting between the Prime Minister and the Premiers of the provinces and territories.
Discussions will focus on how to fund and manage health care in Canada, as stories of staff shortages and operational delays dominate the airwaves.
We see health care growing as an issue at the federal level, especially among Canadians age 55 and older, who continue to express concern about the system’s viability. The meeting will also give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an opportunity to reconnect with the electorate after a rocky end to 2022, even if the supply-and-confidence deal the Liberals struck with the New Democratic Party (NDP) ensures no to have federal elections held by 2025.
Every six months Research Co. and Glacier Media ask Canadians about national unity and their government leaders. At the start of this year, more than half of Canadians (52 per cent) thought their province would be better off with another prime minister in Ottawa, up one point from our previous survey in June 2022.
As is traditionally the case, hostility to Trudeau is particularly high in Alberta (66 per cent, up two points) and Manitoba and Saskatchewan (65 per cent, up five points). The proportions of dissatisfied Canadians were lower in Atlantic Canada (44 per cent, down eight points) and Quebec (42 per cent, down three points).
Bigger problems for Trudeau are in two other provinces.
In Ontario, which proved crucial to Liberal minority victories in 2019 and 2021, 52 percent of residents (up four points) think they would be better off with someone else taking over at the federal level. In British Columbia, where Trudeau did remarkably well in 2015, 57 percent (also up four points) appear ready for a new prime minister.
In Ontario and British Columbia, the Liberals should maintain support in the cities. There is a clear challenge from the Conservative Party, as evidenced by the way federal opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has discussed housing, an issue that is particularly important among young urban voters.
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