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A Deep Dive on Canadian Political Attitudes: Chinese election interference & the Liberal/NDP Agreement
From March 2 to 4, 2023, Abacus Data conducted a national survey of 2,600 adults exploring several topics related to Canadian politics and current events as part of our regular national omnibus surveys. Note, this survey was completed prior to the Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday evening and comments by opposition party leaders and MPs […]
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Ontario Politics: PCs lead by 13 as the public reacts to the story about the Ford family stag-and-doe and wedding
From March 2 to 4, 2023, Abacus Data surveyed 1,000 Ontario adults and asked them about their views and intentions as they relate to Ontario provincial politics. Here’s what we found: The PCs lead the Ontario Liberals by 13 points, with the NDP back in third. If a provincial election was held at the time […]
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Some Perspective and Deeper Polling Analysis on the “Canada Feels Broken” Framing
The whole “Canada feels broken” framing and the ensuing debate had us wondering whether Canadians are so down on the state of their country and whether there was any nuance on the subject. Luckily, David owns a polling firm and so we could dig a bit deeper into public attitudes about the subject. Our hypothesis […]
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Toronto Pulse: How Torontonians are feeling about the city, the budget, and the TTC today
Earlier this week, I finished a represented survey of adults living in the City of Toronto. All the research was done prior to last night’s news that admited to having had an “inappropriate” relationship with a woman who worked for him This is the first wave of a quarterly study Abacus Data will be doing […]
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Alberta Politics: UCP takes the lead as many Reluctant UCPers come home
At the end of last year, I shared our first deep dive into the Alberta political opinion environment in the lead-up to this year’s provincial election. That survey found the NDP leading the UCP by 9 points among decided voters with 25% undecided overall. Our latest survey – conducted from February 1 to 6 – […]