The Ipsos Canadian Public Affairs Dataverse is a repository of over 60 Ipsos Canada surveys that shed light on Canadian culture, politics, and society. All data is open access. This resource has been graciously donated to LISPOP and Wilfrid Laurier University by Ipsos Canada.
In LISPOP’s survey of Ontario voters in the 2022 election, we focused on attitudes toward housing. One of the series of questions that we asked respondents was to name a cause of the recent increase in house prices and rents. The next graph shows how different voters responded. On average, […]
If William Morneau, the former Trudeau finance minister, is positioning himself to take a run at his old boss’s job, as the timing of the release of his new book suggests, he might be wise to pause and take a hard look at both his timing and his ambition. Where […]
Just what an election is about is a question at least as important as who is standing. Because most voters don’t have coherent ideologies, but rather many different attitudes, a candidate might be better off making an election about something good if you’re the incumbent (e.g. a recent uptick in unemployment) […]
Last week’s column produced a surprising (to me) flurry of comments from readers. The piece wasn’t even about my hero, Doug Ford; it barely mentioned reliably controversial Justin Trudeau. The subject was Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s ambition to abolish the CBC and his bizarre notion of somehow converting its decrepit […]
Pierre Poilievre says one of his first acts when (not if) he becomes prime minister will be to shut down the CBC. There’s nothing surprising about his commitment. Fear and loathing of the public broadcaster has been baked into the identity of the federal Conservatives. To them, the CBC – […]
Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeauc/o High Commissioner Emina TudakovicCanadian High Commission3 West Kings House RoadKingston 10, Jamaica My Dear Prime Minister, Knowing how eagerly you have been waiting for my annual New Year’s letter with its sage advice on ways to duck the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that will […]
Fifty years ago, when Conservative Robert Stanfield was leader of the official opposition, he went on an open-line radio program in Toronto. Question: “Mr. Stanfield, I want to ask you this: Why is a fine man like yourself, who is wealthy with a lovely family and now a grandchild, bothering […]
The federal Liberals were in high spirits at their caucus holiday party last Wednesday as they celebrated their victory in the Mississauga-Lakeshore by-election two days earlier. The opinion polls haven’t done Liberals many favours of late, but they had just stopped Pierre Poilievre cold in his first electoral outing as […]
