Jun 27 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — The number of people who say Canada is heading in the right direction, is at 35%, down 4 points from mid-April, and one of the weaker results we have seen in the last year and a half. FEDERAL APPROVAL TREND DOWN. 38% approve of the performance of the federal government, which is down 2 points […]
Jun 22 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — We recently completed nationwide surveying among 1500 Canadians. The focus was the levels of trust people have in institutional sources of information, and belief in different theories that indicate a lack of trust in broadly accepted facts. This is the fourth in a series of releases based on our findings. As we noted in an […]
Jun 14 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — As Canada and many other places in the world relax some measures designed to limit the harm caused by Covid19, albeit with a sense of caution about what the fall may hold, our research indicates that millions of Canadians have accepted some conspiracy theories relating to the pandemic and vaccination as fact.
Jun 12 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — We recently completed nationwide surveying among 1500 Canadians. The focus was on the levels of trust people have in institutional sources of information, and belief in conspiracy theories. This is the second in a series called “Trust & Facts: What Canadians Believe” • 44% (the equivalent of 13 million adults) believe “big events like wars, […]
Jun 8 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — We recently completed nationwide surveying among 1500 Canadians. The focus was on the levels of trust people have in institutional sources of information, and belief in conspiracy theories. This is the first in a series called “Trust & Facts: What Canadians Believe”
May 28 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — Our latest nationwide public opinion survey asked Canadians a couple of questions about the topic of freedom, to test the resonance of Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre’s campaign promise to “make Canada the freest country in the world”. The results suggest that the promise might not lack some pulling power, as the large majority of […]
May 25 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — Our latest nationwide public opinion survey shows little change on several of the variables that we track, but we do see evidence that Pierre Poilievre has lost some popularity over the last few weeks.
May 13 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — Our latest nationwide public opinion survey shows little movement over the last couple of months. Since 2022 began, the Liberals have been tracking between 30% and 33%, and so has the Conservative Party. The most recent results find the Conservatives with 33%, Liberals 31% and NDP at 19%. Since the year started, the NDP has […]
Apr 14 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — The mood of the country is little changed from last month, with 39% thinking the country is headed in the right direction, and 46% think it’s off on the wrong track. Canadians continue to see the situation in the US and around the world as worse than Canada’s context: just 26% feel the US and […]
Apr 5 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — Most Canadians continue to believe that the federal government is doing a good job or doing as well as can be expected in terms of providing support for Ukraine. Over the last several weeks, these numbers have slipped marginally, however it remains the case that less than 20% of Canadians are critical of the Government […]
Apr 1 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — Across the country, one in five voters says they have a positive impression of Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest. Neither has particularly high negatives, with Poilievre at 21% and Charest a few points higher, at 24%. Patrick Brown and Leslyn Lewis are less well known, and both have an equal mix of positive and negative […]
Mar 28 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — In a time when many people don’t follow politics closely, the fact that 64% say that they were aware of the arrangement announced this week indicates that it cut through as being something worth paying attention to for many people. Awareness levels were fairly similar across Canada’s regions – above 60% everywhere but in Atlantic […]
Feb 24 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — The mood of the country is unchanged from our last reading, with 34% feeling the country is headed in the right direction and 52% thinking it’s on the wrong track. Approval of the federal government has also held steady with 39% approving and 46% disapproving. Disapproval is almost exactly what it was two weeks ago […]
Feb 18 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — National Observer — Sometimes the conversation and coverage of COVID-19 makes it sound like masks, distancing, vaccinations and other measures have all been imposed by government on unwilling citizens. That would be a bad take. And while things are changing right now, most Canadians still prefer caution over risk when it comes to COVID and public policy measures. […]
Feb 12 2022 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — The mood of the country has soured further since our last wave of research roughly a month ago. Today, 34% feel the country is headed in the right direction (down 8 over two months and the lowest since April 2021) while 50% think it’s on the wrong track, up 7.