Juno News - Trudeau's approval rating is still at 44%

00:00:00.000 While it's not surprising that the Prime Minister's approval rating would have taken a hit during the

00:00:10.520 WE scandal, what may surprise you is that 44% of Canadians still approve of the job the Prime

00:00:15.540 Minister is doing. That's according to a new poll released by Angus Reid which shows that more than

00:00:20.320 half of Canadians saying that their opinion of the Prime Minister has decreased because of the

00:00:24.620 latest scandals. Now, there have been a number of scandals involving the Prime Minister directly,

00:00:29.040 and they have definitely hurt his brand and by extension the Liberal Party brand. But what I

00:00:33.560 want to do is take a bit of a deeper dive into the data by Angus Reid and see what we can't figure out

00:00:38.480 and what we might be able to learn about Canadians and about their opinion on Canadian politics because

00:00:43.800 there are some really interesting gems according to what I saw from even just a quick review.

00:00:48.460 So here we have the data. This is the Angus Reid website and this is the full data that they made

00:00:53.000 public about the recent poll. So you can see here this is the first chart, the approval or disapproval

00:00:58.500 rating of Justin Trudeau and it starts from 2019. Now he's been hovering at about 60% for much of

00:01:04.300 that time. Around here, February, March, April, you've got COVID and so his disapproval rating really

00:01:11.960 went down to 44%, approval up to 54%. This may be what's called a rally around the flag effect. So that

00:01:18.200 is basically when there is some national crisis or some tragedy or incident. The people may support

00:01:24.940 their leader in a much stronger way because of some patriotic effect. That could really be seen,

00:01:30.100 I think, with George Bush following the September 11 attacks where his approval rating skyrocketed in

00:01:35.200 the immediate aftermath of the attacks. But as you may know, his approval rating was always quite low.

00:01:40.220 Again, we can talk about that being skewed and we'll get into some of that as we look at the data

00:01:43.920 here about what, you know, skewed polling might look like. I know that these days people seem to be

00:01:48.480 hesitant to say that they support conservatives. That's really happening a lot in the states and I'm really

00:01:52.860 curious actually if that's happening here. But this is the approval rating. The interesting thing

00:01:57.240 to note on this one is that his disapproval rating, so the red, his disapproval rating is

00:02:02.800 actually lower than when we started on this graph in October 2019. So as much as the Wii scandal has

00:02:10.640 hurt him and hurt the government, according to this data, it's actually better for him. His approval

00:02:16.220 rating has actually gone up and his disapproval rating is lower than when we started. Again,

00:02:20.120 let's compare 54 disapprove, 44 approve compared to 60% disapprove and 35% approve. So oddly enough,

00:02:27.780 it seems to be an increase and that's kind of, you know, interesting. And so let's, let's take a look.

00:02:34.040 Let's see if they break down who's supporting by party, by age, by, you know, a couple of other things

00:02:38.860 that surveys tend to, tend to ask. So you have the engagement rates. Here is the percentage of

00:02:44.140 Canadians that selected ethics or corruption as a top issue. This one is kind of interesting to me

00:02:48.880 because the scandals really were going on for quite a long time. I don't know if, if blackface 1.00

00:02:55.760 would have been counted under the, under this. Maybe people don't really see blackface or the

00:03:00.560 alleged groping incident as an ethics slash corruption incident issue. Um, I mean, I would

00:03:05.460 think it's, it's ethics doing, doing blackface or allegedly groping someone is, is definitely an,

00:03:10.380 you know, it's, it's not ethical behavior. Um, but it's interesting that this, you know, it may translate

00:03:14.800 in this way, according to polling, but it's still, it's still not that high about 16% say that it's

00:03:20.640 their, their top issue. And that's obviously understandable. So here we have the, the top

00:03:25.880 issues. This is according to all of the respondents, 1,519 respondents going to this Angus Reed poll.

00:03:31.000 And again, we're all taking, I'm taking this for the analysis for an analytical purposes here

00:03:35.400 to, I'm just taking this factually. I'm not going to go into their methodology or anything unless

00:03:39.660 there's something really glaring, but let's just take it as is and we can discuss. So 40% feel that

00:03:45.860 coronavirus and the COVID-19 response is the top issue. Totally understandable. That is also tied

00:03:50.740 into the economy and healthcare. I would really say that these are pretty much all the same thing.

00:03:56.240 And that is almost 100% of people, if you really broke it down, because you can't really talk about

00:04:02.120 the coronavirus without also talking about the economy, without also talking about our healthcare

00:04:05.840 system. Surprising is that 27%, 27%, according to the, you know, people selected up to three,

00:04:15.760 27% still had environmental climate change is one of the top issues. I would have thought it would be

00:04:19.880 a bit more drowned out. Government spending, again, that's sort of a COVID issue. Income inequality,

00:04:26.680 again, maybe that's tied to the economy or COVID, but you know, it's, it's an issue, definitely an issue

00:04:32.460 worth discussing, but interesting that it's, it's still, you know, mid, mid range here.

00:04:37.200 Jobs, unemployment, ethics, corruption, we scandal here down at the bottom, housing affordability,

00:04:41.660 that one, to be honest, I didn't, didn't expect that one. I know that that's a serious issue in a

00:04:45.720 lot of metropolitan areas. I myself am in the GTA. That's a serious issue in the GTA, but still kind

00:04:49.920 of surprising that it's up there. And then taxes, 11. A lot of these can be categorized though. So

00:04:54.740 this is sort of what Canadians are thinking about. And the we scandal ranks pretty low on,

00:05:00.540 on this, according to the survey. But here is one of the more interesting ones. So this is broken

00:05:06.920 down. Thinking about this situation, which view is closest to your own? This is the question that

00:05:10.480 was asked. So according to, this is the total all 1,500 Canadians. Now this is Canadians that identify

00:05:16.760 as Conservative Party supporters. This is Canadians that identified in the survey as Liberal Party

00:05:21.480 supporters and Canadians that identified as NDP supporters. So here we go. According to the survey,

00:05:29.000 thinking about the situation, which view is closest to your own? So the red means this is a serious

00:05:34.080 issue and is significant. Blue means this issue has been overblown by the media and opposition

00:05:38.300 parties. And gray is not sure. Conservative Party members very, very strongly, almost unanimous. I don't

00:05:45.160 know what the margin of error in the survey here, but almost, you know, unanimous on the fact that this

00:05:49.660 is a serious and significant issue. And I think this speaks to sort of the Conservative base, a lot of

00:05:54.640 the Conservative mindset, very interested in fairness, very interested in ethics, ethics, very interested

00:06:00.120 in, you know, the rule of law, legal rights, these kind of things. This is a big focus. And rightfully

00:06:06.020 so. It's not, you know, not something to belittle here. I'm not belittling that. But rightfully so,

00:06:10.680 this is a serious issue. And I think that the majority of Conservative Party supporters that are

00:06:16.060 taking issue with this are not simply doing it because it is the opposite guy. I think that there

00:06:22.380 would be a lot of anger. And, you know, historically, this is sort of one of Reagan's 11 commandments,

00:06:27.740 do not criticize other Conservatives. And he said that because there's, there's often a lot of

00:06:31.340 criticism of other Conservatives by Conservatives. And so it is not really surprising that 91% think

00:06:36.440 this is a serious and significant issue. And again, this isn't the first scandal of the Prime

00:06:39.760 Minister. And this really is a serious issue on many levels. So, you know, this is not at all

00:06:44.820 surprising. Liberal Party supporters. This is kind of surprising. And I would like to ask a number of

00:06:50.180 follow-up questions, but let's just tackle this first. This issue is serious and significant,

00:06:54.300 30%. This issue has been overblown by the media and opposition parties, 60%. Not sure, can't say

00:06:59.700 why. 10%. So 60% of Liberal Party supporters really think that this issue has been overblown by the

00:07:07.240 media and opposition parties. So I've got to ask these people a question. If this were the first

00:07:12.140 scandal or the only scandal, I, you know, I could hear it. I could hear you think it's overblown.

00:07:16.540 There's, you know, a number of different things. But my question is, the story has evolved a lot of

00:07:21.700 times. There have been a number of people, you know, first it was cabinet. So first it was the

00:07:25.920 bureaucracy. Then it was cabinet. Then it was finance minister. Then it was Baris Chaggar. Then

00:07:30.260 it was all these people. And so the story really is just evolving. And now it turns out, according to

00:07:35.080 a more recent report, which I don't have up here, according to a more recent report, about 30 million was

00:07:40.240 supposed to go to administrative costs early on in the program. So for we to administer the program,

00:07:44.560 they were going to get about 30 something million. And this is sort of upfront. So this is before you

00:07:48.420 even accomplished anything. It's not like a work bonus where, you know, the job, you, you get,

00:07:52.700 you know, some, some kind of bonus per employee. This is upfront. So the story really keeps on

00:07:57.140 evolving. And again, it's a question for people who identify as liberals. Why do you think this

00:08:02.920 issue has been overblown? In what ways do you think this issue has been overblown? And why do you

00:08:08.020 think the media and opposition parties are, you know, usually together in this? I know a conservative

00:08:12.200 criticism, which has a lot of merit is often that the media is supportive of the prime minister,

00:08:18.060 supportive of the Trudeau government, and just looking to hammer, um, I guess, mostly the

00:08:21.820 conservatives according to the complaints. But, um, why, why do you liberal party supporters think

00:08:26.620 that this is the case? That is a serious question. Again, also in the context of the numerous scandals

00:08:31.500 of this government. NDP supporters, that one is kind of interesting. They're, you know, almost,

00:08:36.260 uh, not neck and neck, but 46% think it's significant and 33% think that it's been overblown

00:08:41.740 by the media. So they're about halfway between, uh, between liberal and conservative, uh, party

00:08:47.560 members. But that was kind of interesting because you could say that they're sort of an, you know,

00:08:52.600 a third party. They're not, they're not connected. They have no horse in the game. If you want to look

00:08:56.040 at it from that way by the polling, but at the same time, again, if there's going to be an election

00:09:00.800 coming up, they, I'm sure are looking to get more seats. Uh, you know, they form the opposition.

00:09:05.960 So it's kind of interesting that according to the results, it, it looks like it's with so many,

00:09:10.820 uh, not sure, can't say 21%. It just looks like a bit of confusion, maybe about the Wii scandal.

00:09:15.540 So really wondering what that is. And I'd be interested to hear from any NDP supporters,

00:09:19.820 what you think or why you think the results might be this way. What, what's the perspective there?

00:09:24.720 This one here, this is by province. Uh, interestingly enough, Saskatchewan is the toughest

00:09:29.920 province on this one. Saskatchewan is 77%. I think this is a serious and significant issue.

00:09:35.540 The rest across the board, pretty even, to be honest, pretty, pretty even. Um, you know, I mean,

00:09:41.360 the lowest being Atlantic Canada, 52%, but that's, it's not even that low compared to the,

00:09:45.220 the average, which seems to be about, uh, you know, high fifties or so. So, um, not, not too much

00:09:51.920 disagreement across the country. The, maybe the blue is a bit more, you can see Ontario, a lot of support,

00:09:57.700 a lot of support for prime minister in Ontario. Uh, the lowest support, again, in Saskatchewan,

00:10:02.200 not surprising. So quite interesting on the, um, on the region. Now, if you look at where the prime

00:10:09.460 minister has a lot of seats, it's going to be in Ontario, Quebec, um, Atlantic Canada, even there's

00:10:15.580 not that many seats in general, but, but Atlantic Canada. So these are really a lot of, this is a lot

00:10:19.640 of the, the, the support base for the prime minister, where they get a lot of seats. So it's

00:10:23.920 interesting to see the, the difference and the sort of alignment on the numbers. Uh, if we go

00:10:27.880 down here, thinking about your feelings and views on the issue, how would you assess what has come

00:10:31.340 to light? This one again is more interesting. A simple mistake or error in judgment, 12% is about

00:10:36.880 the Wii scandal. Um, an unethical decision, but not a criminal act, 43%, a possible criminal act that

00:10:43.160 should be investigated by police. This is quite interesting. Not even half of people think that

00:10:48.060 it should be investigated by the police. 43% think it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act.

00:10:54.960 So this begs a number of questions about our perception of government. Is it possible for the

00:11:01.500 government to do things that are very unethical and yet not criminal? Should they be allowed to do

00:11:07.580 things that are not ethical and are not criminal? Should we amend certain things in the criminal code

00:11:14.040 to ensure that the government, or to try and minimize the amount of unethical behavior by the

00:11:18.560 government? Does this number of 43% say that we have a low opinion of politicians and their ability

00:11:25.460 to behave ethically? These are interesting questions that I think we should debate because

00:11:29.620 43% of people thinking it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act is pretty high. That's almost

00:11:35.480 half of the respondents. 8% again said that they can't say. If you can't say, um, you know,

00:11:41.300 you may not have been paying attention. You may not know everything about it. This is a poll.

00:11:46.340 Not everyone is fully informed. So 8% saying they can't say, you know, I don't know.

00:11:51.480 Thinking about views and feelings on the issue, how would you assess what has come to light so far?

00:11:55.580 So again, this is broken down by party supporters. So the same question as above here, but broken down

00:12:00.740 by party supporters. This again, CPC, 77% think it is a possible criminal act that should be

00:12:06.500 investigated by the police. Liberals, 61% say it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act.

00:12:12.280 NDP, stronger, interestingly enough, um, although the sample size is smaller, stronger,

00:12:16.660 interestingly enough, 65% say that it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act. So

00:12:22.760 now I want to compare these two numbers. Let's look here. 61% think it is an unethical decision,

00:12:28.080 but not a criminal act. Let's go back up here. 60% say that this issue has been overblown by the

00:12:34.000 media and opposition parties. So we have almost alignment in the two surveys, and it would be

00:12:39.740 interesting to know which respondents, which of the 61% here were also members of the 60% here.

00:12:46.300 Were they 100% identical? Were they different? Could you say that this is a serious and significant

00:12:53.300 issue, but then also think that it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act? So a number of

00:12:59.040 interesting things, and we don't seem to have that data right now. So there's no way to really figure

00:13:03.220 that out. But 61% of liberal supporters say it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act.

00:13:09.800 That also bleeds into the 44% of people who say that they still approve of the job that prime

00:13:16.720 minister is doing. And I don't know if that was broken down by party. I don't think that was broken

00:13:22.620 down by party just yet, but 44% of Canadians think the prime minister is doing a good job.

00:13:27.600 Which percent of the Canadians think he's doing a good job? Think that it is a criminal act that

00:13:32.680 should be investigated by the police? Are there any? Which percent of Canadians think

00:13:36.340 it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act? I really would like to see that data. Because

00:13:41.340 again, if a lot of the people who think it was an unethical decision, but not a criminal act

00:13:46.180 are still in approval of the prime minister, what does that really say about your opinion

00:13:51.200 of our political leaders or our political system? That's not really a possibility that I like. And so

00:13:56.660 I really would be curious about the data. I think I'm going to, I think I'm going to reach out to

00:13:59.580 Angus Reif to see if there's anything more that they would be able to shed. Perhaps even

00:14:03.340 in confidence and maybe I can just give you sort of an overview, but let's, you know, let's figure

00:14:06.520 that out. This is age and gender. You know, this may be, may be relevant. Let's, let's see here.

00:14:12.320 So a simple mistake error in judgment. This is the top row. An unethical decision, but not a criminal

00:14:16.580 act. This row, a possible criminal act that should be investigated by the police and not sure.

00:14:21.380 I can't say why. So the color coding seems to be the highest. Now it looks like, it looks like

00:14:29.500 according to these two squares, older men between 35, uh, let's just say from 35 to 55, uh, more than

00:14:35.840 half of older men think it is a possible criminal act that should be investigated police by the

00:14:40.180 police. Um, on the female side, more than on the female side, the majority of them, it's not more than 0.75

00:14:46.820 half on this one, but the majority of them think it is an unethical decision, but not a criminal act.

00:14:51.220 So again, do you think that the government should be allowed to make so many unethical acts? Should

00:14:56.040 we not push for some reforms to try and minimize the unethical acts? How would you even define

00:15:01.760 unethical acts is, is unethical dumping raw sewage into the St. Lawrence river river is unethical

00:15:08.000 making a program that you know is useless, but it's simply like a make work project for government

00:15:14.300 employees is unethical. Something about, you know, appointing your buddies to seats, even

00:15:19.060 though they may be qualified. So what are the definitions? What do you really mean to each

00:15:23.260 person? This is a lot of these are loaded terms, which really might mean different things to

00:15:28.440 different people, but still the, you know, the, the difference in the ages, the difference

00:15:32.240 in the, the genders might, might be interesting. Do you approve or disapprove of Justin Trudeau?

00:15:37.080 Again, we have the, uh, we have the ratings here, um, following the election, high, you know,

00:15:42.760 high approval rating and then pretty down, down, down. He's got low approval ratings. Here was the,

00:15:47.880 uh, sort of COVID response. This may be again, a rally around the flag effect going up. And then

00:15:52.840 his approval is still 44%. A lot of interesting stuff on this data approval by federal votes,

00:15:59.520 uh, liberals, 82%. Oh, here we go. They did have, um, 82% of liberals still approve of Justin Trudeau.

00:16:06.540 Again, 82% of people approve of the prime minister following blackface, the Aga Khan, 1.00

00:16:13.600 alleged groping, the numerous ethics violations that he has been accused of. 82% is pretty high.

00:16:20.600 And this is actually the main point that I wanted to bring up. And the main thing that I thought

00:16:25.220 about while, uh, getting idea to, to make this video. And that is why would someone approve so

00:16:32.140 highly of a prime minister who's been accused of a number of different things. Now, if I'm going to

00:16:38.580 start off with comparing to the United States, because that may shed things, uh, may shed some

00:16:42.940 light on what's going on here, even though, uh, you know, I don't want to always bring American, 0.99

00:16:46.220 uh, American politics and the American perspective into things, but in the United States, because it's

00:16:51.900 a two party system, you may feel that regardless of what Trump does, or regardless of what Biden does,

00:16:57.920 voting for the other guy is voting for the end of the country, voting, voting for,

00:17:02.140 voting for racism, voting for hatred, voting for any number of horrible things. And so it's kind

00:17:07.920 of a, I'm going to hold my nose and I'm going to vote for this guy because if I vote for the other

00:17:12.220 guy, the option is so unpalatable that I simply cannot fathom it. And therefore I'm going to vote

00:17:19.380 for Trump or Biden, whoever I'm going to vote for them, no matter what they do, because unless they

00:17:25.240 turn into the other guy, they're still going to be better than the other guy in Canada, though,

00:17:30.120 it's not a two party system. And I know that there's, you know, there's left and right, and you

00:17:34.840 might say, okay, well, the NDP is on the left, but how many people are switching between, how many

00:17:40.520 diehard people are switching between the liberal party and the NDP? There's a lot of talk about a

00:17:46.180 mushy middle, but I'm not sure where that mushy middle is anymore. How many people are really sort

00:17:51.940 of, you know, on the line, they'll go either way. Politics is definitely becoming more, more

00:17:57.940 polarized. And so how many people are really, you know, really floating this way? But what is

00:18:02.000 interesting, again, is the prime minister's approval rating on NDP, speaking of, you know,

00:18:06.880 not being a two party system. So again, following COVID here, this again, may be a rally around the

00:18:11.920 flag effect. You can see even 20% of conservatives think that, you know, he's doing a good job as of

00:18:16.720 April, according to Angus Reid. But the numbers have stayed pretty high. And so 61% of NDP, you

00:18:25.640 know, the self-declared NDP supporters, 61% of them support the prime minister. That's interesting

00:18:32.340 news for the NDP. If 61% of your party members think he's doing mostly a good job, more than half

00:18:37.940 think that he's doing a good job. I would really ask, well, okay, how are you differentiating yourself

00:18:43.060 as the NDP party from the liberal party? What policies do you have that are going to set you

00:18:47.680 aside? Now, with conservatives, again, 9%. So this is still higher than the original 3% on the 19th.

00:18:55.420 And again, does this mean that the majority of conservative supporters think that there's

00:19:00.080 nothing the prime minister can do right? That's an opinion that a lot of people take. I try and

00:19:05.680 judge it on an incident or on a situation by situation basis. So I might applaud him for certain

00:19:10.280 things and I might smack him down for certain things. Then, you know, maybe I'll make a video

00:19:14.100 about some of the things that I have liked that the prime minister has done. But regardless,

00:19:18.880 here we're talking about the data and about the disapproval of Canadians.

00:19:24.380 Again, this is approval, disapproval. This is just sort of a differentiation almost of the chart,

00:19:30.000 the previous chart up here. This was about the criminal act and this is about the approval,

00:19:34.000 disapproval. So interestingly, strongly disapprove, more males disapprove than females. Now, my question

00:19:42.680 for the women here is, I've criticized very strongly and a number of women have criticized 0.90

00:19:48.340 very strongly the prime minister's behavior towards women. He has proclaimed himself as a staunch

00:19:54.240 feminist and it looks like that message is really, really sticking. But in my opinion, 0.99

00:19:59.640 his actions do not show that. His actions with Jody Olsen-Raybould, James Philpott,

00:20:05.940 with the alleged groping, with a number of different things that he has done with now

00:20:11.260 Bardis Chaggar and Selena. I keep on butchering her last name, but there have been a number of people,

00:20:18.000 a number of women who, specifically women, who have come out against the prime minister,

00:20:22.880 Leona Elsev, who switched parties. A number of women have come out against the prime minister,

00:20:28.780 calling him out for his fake feminism. I really wonder, the message is really hitting home because

00:20:34.880 it still seems that more than 50% in all three categories, more than 50% of women still approve

00:20:40.180 of Justin Trudeau. But does that mean that they're separating what may be his personal, you know,

00:20:46.000 his personal feminism or his personal situation? Is that separating from the politics? Do they like

00:20:51.480 his politics? Do they like the guy? These are questions you don't, the questions you don't have

00:20:56.020 answers to from this data. But this is a question that you should ask. If you are a female Trudeau

00:21:00.960 supporter, what is it about the prime minister that you support? What is it that you like?

00:21:06.820 And what is it you don't like about the Conservative Party? Right now they have no leader.

00:21:10.980 There is going to be a leadership debate hosted by the Independent Press Gallery, which I'm going to

00:21:15.280 be very excited to watch coming up. But what is it about the Conservatives or the NDP or the Greens

00:21:21.760 or the PBC or the Bloc, if you live in Quebec? What is it about those parties that you don't like

00:21:26.700 that would still make you approve of the prime minister? Or do you still approve of the prime

00:21:31.860 minister even though you vote for the other party? So a number of interesting questions.

00:21:36.000 Here we go. And over the past month or so, would you say your opinion of the prime minister

00:21:40.720 and Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau has improved, worsened, or stayed the same?

00:21:44.420 So the serious and people who said it was a serious and significant issue, 74% think it

00:21:52.040 has worsened. So that's pretty obvious. If you think it's serious and he's done a lot

00:21:55.520 of things, then obviously it won't worsen. My opinion of them has worsened. If you think

00:21:59.780 it's overblown, probably stayed the same. A lot of overlap here with Liberal and some

00:22:04.380 NDP party supporters here. Not sure I can't say, 51%. That's interesting because the not sure I can't

00:22:11.200 say was a small group, 185, compared to almost 900 said that it was significant and 436 said

00:22:16.820 that it was overblown. But 50% of these people said that they, you know, they're not sure

00:22:21.600 if it changed their opinion. They don't think so. This one is by gender. Sort of the same 0.91

00:22:26.360 stuff up there. Not really much to pull out on this one. This one here. What impact, if

00:22:31.320 any of you, think this will have on the current minority Liberal government? So 56% said a minor

00:22:37.680 impact. That it will embarrass the Liberal government, but ultimately it will survive.

00:22:42.620 32% said a major impact. This could be the issue that ultimately brings down the government.

00:22:46.920 12% said no impact at all. And this will be forgotten in a matter of weeks.

00:22:50.640 Now, if you lump in 12% plus the 56%, that gives you 68%. That is a super majority, to use 0.99

00:22:57.620 an American term again. That is a super majority here, practically. And so you've really got to

00:23:04.300 wonder, is this going to bring down the government? It looks like, according to this Angus Reid poll,

00:23:08.260 almost 70% of Canadians say no. It's going to embarrass them, but no, they'll survive. We will

00:23:12.320 probably just, you know, re-elect Justin Trudeau, according to this data. That is a real possibility

00:23:17.520 here. So this is quite interesting because it doesn't jive so much with the people who said

00:23:24.420 their opinion worsened and that it was a serious and significant violation. So again, my question,

00:23:30.100 if almost 68% of people think that it has no impact or minor impact and the government will

00:23:36.000 survive, but a similar amount think it was a serious and significant issue, what does that

00:23:40.700 say about our politics? What does that say about Canadians and their opinion of their government's

00:23:46.980 ability to deal with scandals, their government's ethics? What does that say about our political

00:23:50.800 system? Do we, have we lost trust in our political system? I know a lot of you in the comments,

00:23:55.320 and I read actually the comments a lot of times. A lot of you in the comments have no faith in the

00:24:00.320 political system, have no faith in the prime minister, and that's fine. There's been a lot

00:24:04.260 of disappointment here, but what does that say for the majority of Canadians? Is everyone just jaded?

00:24:08.400 Do we just really have no hope that this will have any effect? What if it turns out there are criminal

00:24:14.760 charges laid? Will that change? Who knows? Because right now, you know, not even, where was the one

00:24:20.380 people calling for a criminal investigation? Only 37% said that should be even investigated by the

00:24:26.020 police. So, you know, really, really got a wonder on a lot of these questions. Here again by province,

00:24:33.080 interestingly enough, the, it's not Saskatchewan who thinks that has a minor impact. The largest group

00:24:38.560 seems to be Atlantic Canada, I think that has a minor impact. Oh, sorry, no, BC thinks that would be a

00:24:42.900 minor impact. Um, what ability do you think this will have in the current minority liberal government?

00:24:48.240 CPC, 36%, minor impact. Again, is that apathy? You, you just think that nothing bad will happen to

00:24:54.380 them. They're just Teflon. They, you know, no scandal will stick. 74% of liberals, again, minor impact.

00:25:00.120 Is that because you think it will have a minor impact? Because you think it is a minor thing? Or

00:25:04.080 because you just don't care? Interesting question for liberals. Same thing for NEP supporters, 74, 70%

00:25:09.320 say it's a minor impact. You know, really, you should get in touch with your party leaders and

00:25:14.120 see what's up. Um, if I were an NDP, uh, operative or, or some kind of, you know, political person,

00:25:20.360 I would really be wondering, okay, where are we? Where do we want to position ourselves? Because

00:25:24.820 where you are right now, that, that, that's not, there's not really strong differentiation and not

00:25:30.260 really a lot of motivation there. I could be wrong. Please, please prove me wrong. Um, I'd be

00:25:34.040 interested to find out, but this, this is what this data at least might say. So a lot of interesting

00:25:38.680 questions, uh, this is about their methodology. This is, you know, a lot of, a lot of stuff here.

00:25:43.240 Um, obviously this poll, this is one poll. So we don't, we don't know the true feelings of Canadians.

00:25:49.580 There's been a lot of discussion. Are Canadians even willing to give their true opinion on some

00:25:54.880 of these polls? Uh, again, the problem seems to be much worse in the United States. I think it was

00:25:58.500 67 or 68% of, uh, people said that they're afraid of expressing their political opinions.

00:26:03.320 The number was much, much higher for conservatives. So, you know, what does this really say? Overall,

00:26:09.120 to be honest, my big takeaways are that people just don't have faith in our political system and

00:26:13.660 our political system's ability to deal with corruption and unethical behavior. It's really,

00:26:19.200 really disappointing. That would be something that I would be interested in hearing from some

00:26:23.100 of the conservative party leadership candidates about what they would do, not just about the scandal,

00:26:27.320 what would you do to ensure, to, um, uh, reinforce in Canadians the idea that their political system

00:26:33.840 can be trusted, that the system itself is not simply built to let these things slide. Um, again,

00:26:39.260 you know, we have a parliamentary democracy. I've talked about our political system quite a lot in

00:26:43.080 a couple of these videos. We have a parliamentary system, a Westminster style parliamentary system.

00:26:47.540 And so if you have a majority government, then technically you have more power internally.

00:26:53.220 So you would have more power, Prime Minister Trudeau would have more power in Canada than Donald

00:26:57.600 Trump does in the United States. And so again, what are we doing? How are we, you know, that's a

00:27:03.320 question maybe for the Minister of Democratic Reform or the Shadow Minister of Democratic Reform.

00:27:06.960 Maybe I'll ask them, what are we going to do to make sure that these things don't happen?

00:27:11.180 And what are we going to do to minimize some of these ethical violations? So hope you enjoyed

00:27:15.240 watching this video. I know this was a bit longer, but again, this is what we try to do. This is what I

00:27:19.760 have been asked to do and what I would like to do here at True North is really going deeper into

00:27:24.240 the story, trying to find out some of the other side, really pull out some of the data. In fact,

00:27:28.280 because the mainstream media is not really going to go through this data for you. They're not really

00:27:32.100 going to talk about what these things might mean. And they're not going to give you that in-depth,

00:27:36.160 you might get some, you know, new story that you can do the gist of it, but nothing too in-depth.

00:27:39.960 And that's really what we're trying to do here. So again, for True North, I am Sam Ashkenazi.

00:27:44.320 I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching and have yourselves a great day.

00:27:49.760 Thank you.

Juno News - July 28, 2020

Trudeau's approval rating is still at 44%

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