Western Standard - WATCH： Kenney no longer Canada’s most unpopular premier

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon. I'm Dave Naylor, the news editor of the Western Standard.

00:00:14.000 Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is finally moving on up. In the latest Angus Reid public opinion

00:00:19.520 survey of Canadian premiers, Kenney's approval rating has gone up the most of any of his colleagues.

00:00:25.440 He's up 4%, but it's still a lowly rating of 26% approval.

00:00:30.720 But it's not all good news for Kenny, as his handling of the COVID-19 crisis is still seeing rock-bottom support.

00:00:38.140 Four out of five Albertans, a total of 78%, say that he has done a poor job on the COVID-19 file, compared to 19% who approve.

00:00:49.020 That 19% approval rating is the lowest in the country.

00:00:52.520 quote Albertans are more generous in their appraisal of the provincial government's

00:00:58.600 handling of COVID-19 vaccines with 7 in 10 total of 69% saying Kenny's UCP government has done a

00:01:07.380 good job distributing the vaccines across the country the Alberta number is bested only by

00:01:13.680 Ontario but only 30% are happy with the Kenny government's approval of the handling of rapid

00:01:19.700 test kits, which seemed very hard to come by. For the first time in a while, Kenny is no longer

00:01:25.340 Canada's lowest rated Premier. That honour now rests with Manitoba's Heather Stevenson,

00:01:31.300 sitting at only 21% support. In this survey, a total of four Premiers received majority

00:01:37.840 approval this quarter. They were Nova Scotia's Tim Houston, Quebec's Francois Legault,

00:01:43.360 and he's got an election coming up this year, BC's John Horgan and Newfoundland's Andrew Fury.

00:01:51.840 Ontario's Doug Ford continues to plunge in the polls.

00:01:55.360 Fewer than one in three, 30% of Ontarians approve of him,

00:02:00.660 making a new low for his tenure at Queen's Park.

00:02:04.160 67% of Ontarians say he's handled the pandemic crisis poorly.

00:02:09.520 For the Western Standard, I'm Dave Naylor.

00:02:13.360 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - January 17, 2022