As questions loom over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, a new Nanos Research poll commissioned for CTV News says a quarter of Canadians say none of the potential Liberal leadership candidates appeal to them.
The survey offered people a selection of potential candidates to lead the party, including the current leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and a range of cabinet ministers and other high-profile Canadians. Of those polled, most selected “none of the above.”
The poll also found that among those surveyed, former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is the most appealing leadership candidate with 18 per cent support, followed by Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland who are tied at 11 per cent.
Carney is currently serving as the Liberal party’s economic advisor and has said he plans to enter elected politics but won’t say when or what job he wants.
People aren’t only fed up with Trudea, but the overall leadership of the Liberal party. They need a new face and name that people don’t know or associate with the Liberals if they want people to vote for them.
And a new direction. An unapologetically pro-worker direction.
Somewhere, Jagmeet’s eyebrows just twitched involuntarily
The NDP are really what I think most people want right now, many just don’t know them well enough to realize it. However, some will vote Conservative to keep the Liberals from gaining control, and others will vote Liberal to keep Conservatives from gaining control, and the NDP will continue to be a “third party”.
Trudeau should continue. He knows how to handle Trump.
He’s the only one I would trust to tell Trump to go fly a kite,
The same way Chretien did to Bush Jr and his bullshit.
The last thing Canada needs is to follow the US into the whole they’re digging.
Bruh, have you seen the polling? PP as PM is a foregone conclusion, despite what I might want.
And he’s also going to tell Trump to fly a kite. They can go together and make a day of it. They’ll laugh and bond and throw rocks at minorities. It’ll be a grand occasion!
There’s potentially a lot of time before the next election, and campaigns matter.
Things look bleak, but I don’t think I’d call it a “foregone conclusion.”
Aren’t we due for an election in 2025?
Yeah, in October. That’s nearly a year away.
Someone who is actually serious about electoral reform like the 40 liberals who did the right thing in voting to advance a citizen’s assembly.
This seems like a stupid poll, and a stupid spin to put on it. Surely the 26% are just people who would never vote Liberal?
And for the rest of the results, it’s going to be almost entirely down to name recognition, save for Trudeau.
The graphic for context
For anyone struggling to parse the graph as I was: look at the red bars below the photos. The photos are irrelevant from the data.
…I really did not expect to see Christy Clark on that list, even if at only 4%. If I’d seen her running as a Con, that would not have surprised me so much. Responsible in BC for legislating striking teachers back to work with the argument that they could not legally bargain on topics like class size, something that much later finally got thrown out by the supreme court. She was a member of the BC Liberals, which were really the right-wing party in BC at the time.
I’d wager both left- and right-leaning people in BC have some bad memories of that one for differing reasons. I certainly have to imagine she’d be a quick way to lose the existing liberal voters here.
Is it though? I find the conclusions you drew along with the poll numbers useful. E.g. we have some idea who’s winning the name recognition contest.☺️
Olivia Chow should lead the NDP
