The latest public opinion data from independent research organization Angus Reid Institute yielded staggering results, demonstrating a major decrease in Liberal leaning voters. The online survey was conducted between Dec. 27 to 30, 2024 and sampled more than 2,200 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum.
If an election were held today, Angus Reid reports that 45 per cent of voters say they would support the Conservatives, 21 per cent the NDP and 16 per cent the Liberals.
Along with his own caucus, nearly half (46 per cent) of Canadians and three-in-five (59 per cent) current Liberal supporters say it’s time for him to step aside. Another two-in-five (38 per cent) Canadians believe Trudeau should call for a general election himself when he returns from his holiday break once Parliament resumes on Jan. 27, the polls read.
Trudeau’s popularity has also massively declined amongst those who voted for him in 2021, according to Angus Reid. Fifty-one per cent of Liberal voters in the last federal election say they disapprove of Trudeau’s performance as prime minister.
While impressions of Trudeau have grown negative over time, there has not been much increase in positivity towards rival Conservative (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre. In assessments from Angus Reid Institute’s earlier polling data from this month, 37 per cent of Canadians said they had a favourable view of Poilievre. The number now stands at 38 per cent – or statistically unchanged.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s trajectory of public opinion has been on a steady decline since the 2021 election, the data says, and three-in-five (58%) Canadians say they have an unfavourable view of the NDP leader.
You can pretty much trace the collapse to Trudeau's "I don't care, do you?" response about housing.
His support, especially among young Canadians, absolutely crated at that.
One thing the LPC needs to learn is to empathize: yes, housing a provincial responsibility, yes, inflation is global. But when you explicitly, and callously, and PUBLICLY wash your hands of it, you're telling voters "Fuck you, we don't care, you're on your own!".
Poillievre, despite being a lying, disingenuous, opportunistic weasel, at least speaks to people's anxieties. He won't do fuck all, and will almost assuredly make it worse, but at least he validates them. That's important, and the centrist do-nothing knob-twiddlers in the LPC could learn a thing or two about how to acknowledge and empathize with voters.
Centrists the world over have been fucking useless at this, and they're getting their asses handed to them as a result because they're used to working like it's 1994 and money will happen no matter what they do. Now they're having to work for the first time in their lives: stake out actual positions, take actual action, and they're trapped between voters that want results, donors that want the money train to keep rolling, and fascists willing to lie to both sides.