Abacus Data Bulletin: Canadians not sold on the People’s Party or Maxime Bernier
Abacus Data Bulletins are short analyses of public opinion data we collect. For more information or media interviews, contact Bruce Anderson or David Coletto. If it were up to a majority of Canadian voters, the People’s Party of Canada would disappear from the electoral landscape. Still, far more would prefer to see the PPC
Abacus Data Bulletin: Canadians endorse NAFTA2/CUSMA by a wide margin
Abacus Data Bulletins are short analyses of public opinion data we collect. For more information or media interviews, contact Bruce Anderson or David Coletto. Just before the end of the year, all three countries signed the new NAFTA deal, also known as CUSMA. Considering how controversial free trade was when the first Canada-US FTA
Abacus Data Bulletin: What Canadians are looking for in a new Conservative Party leader
Abacus Data Bulletins are short analyses of public opinion data we collect. For more information or media interviews, contact Bruce Anderson or David Coletto. We asked Canadians what they are looking for in a new Conservative Party leader. The results suggest that smaller government, tighter immigration, more law and order are somewhat down the list
The state of the Conservative Party brand at the end of 2019
By David Coletto, Kate Harrison, & Dennis Matthews The research for this brand assessment was conducted by Abacus Data CEO David Coletto with advice and insights from Kate Harrison, a VP at government relations firm Summa Strategies and Dennis Matthews, a VP at Enterprise Canada and a former staffer to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
A Premier Ford Reset? Public yet to clue in as negatives hold steady
By Ihor Korbabicz The media has picked up on efforts to present a kinder, refreshed, genteel Doug Ford, but the public has yet to notice. Impressions of the Ontario Premier have been relatively stable since April 2019 when his negatives first reached the ~60% disapproval threshold and ~20% positive, a dynamic that has not shifted
Abacus Data Bulletin: Canadians would impeach & remove US President Trump
Abacus Data Bulletins are short analyses of public opinion data we collect. For more information or media interviews, contact Bruce Anderson or David Coletto. If it were up to a majority of Canadian voters, President Trump would be both impeached and removed from office, according to our latest nationwide opinion data. Fully 60% say they would prefer to
How Canadians celebrate (or don’t celebrate) Christmas
By Megan Ross and David Coletto With Christmas around the corner, we decided to ask Canadians about how they do (or don’t) celebrate the “most wonderful time of the year” (in our opinion). We replicated some questions we asked back in 2012 to see what’s changed. Interesting, a lot has. Here’s what we found: Canadians
The public perception of Canadian politics as 2019 comes to a close
By Bruce Anderson & David Coletto Earlier this week, we completed a national survey of 1,500 Canadians and updated our federal political tracking. While not much has changed since Canadians voted on October 21, the results point to some of the strengths and weaknesses facing parties and their leaders amid the minority parliament. Here’s what
Consumer Spotlight: Streaming Services in Canada
By Megan Ross With the recent launch of both Disney+ and Apple TV Plus, the streaming wars are heating up. The market is saturated with all your favourite tv shows and movies accessible at the click of your mouse. It begs the question of whether there is enough room in the market or money in
Majority support merging school systems in Ontario
By David Coletto & Ihor Korbabicz A slim majority (56%) of Ontarians support merging the separate (Catholic) and public school systems in Ontario into a singular publicly-funded school system. One in four strongly support the idea, while only one in ten are strongly opposed. The question of what to do with the separate school system
