As U.S. President Donald Trump pursues his global trade war and talk of annexation, a new poll suggests the percentage of Canadians who view the United States as a top threat has tripled since 2019.
(Sidebar: this Donald Trump.)
While this year’s survey by the Pew Research Center suggests that 55 per cent of Canadians still say the U.S. remains this country’s most important ally, it also says that 59 per cent now see the U.S. as a threat — up from 20 per cent in the 2019 poll.“Canada sort of stands out as one place where views of the U.S. have changed significantly and substantially,” said Janell Fetterolf, a senior researcher at the centre.
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Main themes of the Liberal Party’s “elbows up” re-election campaign were tested in confidential federal focus groups months before the U.S. announced tariffs, documents show. Pollsters hired by the Privy Council found many Canadians were unsettled by Donald Trump and feared “mass layoffs” from tariffs.
This is the government that Canadians rely on to defeat the Great Orange Beast:
Canadians in Privy Council focus groups questioned cabinet’s rationale for record high immigration quotas. A pollsters’ report on the findings was delivered only weeks before then-Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney announced “the system isn’t working.”
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The Department of Immigration in a briefing note admits it never sought “comprehensive security screening” of suspected Egyptian terrorists arrested a year ago for plotting an attack on Toronto. Then-Immigration Minister Marc Miller at the time defended his department’s handling of the case: “What the hell is going on?”
But, you know, Donald Trump.
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