Only 1 in 10 Canadians happy with outcome of federal election: poll
Global News
The poll results were a mixed bag of people feeling indifferent or that life moves on.
Canadians may not be thrilled with the outcome of last week’s federal election but a new poll suggests few are angry that it produced an almost identical result to the 2019 nation-wide vote.
Just 10 per cent of respondents to the Leger survey said they’re happy with the outcome, which produced another Liberal minority government led by Justin Trudeau and only minor changes to the seat counts of all the parties.
But another 24 per cent said they’re comfortable with the outcome, while nine per cent said they prefer a minority government in any event and 14 per cent said they’re indifferent.
On the flip side, 12 per cent said they’re angry about the outcome and six per cent said they’re uncomfortable with it. Another 24 per cent said they’re unhappy about it “but life goes on.”
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has lambasted Trudeau for calling an unnecessary, $610-million election that changed nothing, all in the midst of a deadly fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, the poll, conducted Sept. 24-26, suggests Canadians are more sanguine about the result, possibly because they’re lukewarm about O’Toole’s leadership.
The online survey of 1,537 Canadians cannot be assigned a margin of error because internet-based polls are not considered random samples.
It suggests that O’Toole was less of an asset for his party than either Trudeau or NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
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