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Majority of Albertans opposed to government's approach on key issues, poll suggests

Majority of Albertans opposed to government's approach on key issues, poll suggests

CBC
Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:13 PM GMT

Just a little more than a week before the start of the governing party's leadership review vote, a new poll suggests a majority of Albertans are dissatisfied with the United Conservative Party's handling of key issues in the province.

The poll by the Angus Reid Institute, which conducted an online survey between March 10 and 15, found that those surveyed disapproved of the government's performance on each of the 13 issues posed, which ranged from economic issues to the COVID-19 response.

"This has been a time for Jason Kenney where, almost from Day 1, he has contended with the challenge from being squeezed from two very intense, very equally passionate sides of the Alberta political spectrum," said Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute.

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Asked about the new poll while speaking Thursday at a press conference in Medicine Hat, Alta., Premier Jason Kenney highlighted provincial initiatives while speculating that the cost of living, inflation and frustrations around the pandemic had led to division in the province.

"It's no secret that you had a lot of polarization in COVID. That frustrated a lot of people on both sides," Kenney said.

Despite the low approval ratings on those key issues, the poll indicates the UCP is in a statistical tie with the Opposition NDP in vote intent.

That's an improvement over the party's performance in recent months, as it had trailed the NDP in the second half of 2021, according to polling.

Thirty-eight per cent of Albertans said they would vote for the UCP in an upcoming provincial election, according to the new survey, while 40 per cent said they would vote for the NDP.

The Wildrose Independence Party — the party that formed after the merger of Wexit Alberta and the Freedom Conservative Party — has seen its prospects fade by about half, with 11 per cent in support of the party now compared with 20 per cent in June 2021.

"The Wildrose is the 'X' factor. The Wildrose party is the wild card in Alberta politics," Kurl said.

"A lot of UCP voters who have drifted over to Wildrose Independence will find themselves taking stock and asking themselves the question, 'Is the UCP government that we're angry with better at the end of the day, from our perspective, than an NDP government?'"

In the survey, 70 per cent of those who voted for the UCP in 2019 now say they will vote for them again in the next election, while 18 per cent say they have moved to the Wildrose Independence Party.

Ninety-six per cent of those who voted for the NDP say they'll do so again, and the party has pulled around seven per cent from those who ticked the box for the UCP in the last election.

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