Most Canadians support Liberal-NDP deal but feel it betrayed voters: poll

By striking the agreement, the NDP traded their support in Parliament over the next three years for progress on issues they care about — like dental care and pharmacare.

Half the country feels the Liberal-NDP agreement to keep the current government in power until 2025 was a betrayal of the people who voted for those two parties.

Despite that, a majority of Canadians still support the deal, according to a new Ipsos poll.

“The big finding for me was the tepid … reaction to the Liberal-NDP agreement,” Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos, said in an interview with Global News.

Just over 60 per cent of Canadians strongly or somewhat supported the agreement, the poll found, but the country was split about whether the deal would actually achieve anything. Just 52 per cent said the deal would lead to better policies, while 48 per cent thought it would not.

Despite this lukewarm support for the deal, many still felt it was unfair to voters. Of those surveyed, 51 per cent thought both the Liberals and the NDP betrayed those who voted for them last October.

When broken down by party, roughly a quarter of Liberal and NDP voters agreed this was indeed a betrayal by their own party of choice.

Still, one thing was clear: the country is happy to be avoiding an election in the near future, according to Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos.

“I think what people are really embracing is the idea of some stability,” he said.