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.
Alden Nowlan, the celebrated New Brunswick poet, got it right when he wrote about the nation’s capital: The first thing that you learn hereIs that the countryBears the same relationshipTo the governmentThat outer spaceBears to the earth. Nowlan, who died young (at 50 in 1983) understood that the governed and […]
The most difficult decision many political leaders face is deciding when to get out, when to accept they have done as much as they realistically can, when to admit to themselves that the longer they linger the greater the risk to their legacy. Justin Trudeau, seven years as prime minister, […]
This country has witnessed many exciting leadership contests over the years. The 2022 competition being staged by the Conservative Party of Canada is an altogether different beast, as we’ll discuss in a moment. As for the others, every political junkie has personal favourites. Mine include: Progressive Conservatives, 1967, the first […]
Desire for change is the most powerful force in politics. It also the most indiscriminate. It can cause the electorate to cast out an old regime today without regard for what may happen tomorrow. It is the force that destroyed the Mulroney-era Progressive Conservatives in 1983, that made Jack Layton […]
LISPOP commissioned a survey of voters during the 2022 election and we’ll be disseminating findings from it over the next few weeks. But as an opening, I wanted to take a look at public spending priorities in the 2022 election compared to the 2018 election. To do so, I compared […]
Events seem so dire these days – from a resurgence of the COVID pandemic to Ukraine and the imperial fantasies of Vladimir Putin to struggles to defend democracy in the United States and elsewhere – that a dramatic warning issued by Professor Michael Byers in an op-ed the other day […]
“I want to tell you how sorry I am to be giving up the best job in the world, but them’s the breaks.” That was Britain’s Prime Boris Johnson, announcing his resignation as Conservative party leader last Thursday. A new leader and PM will take over in the fall. Johnson […]
The hardest thing for a political party to do is choosing the right leader at the right time. If it were simple, the federal Liberals would not have burned through two “permanent” leaders, Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, and one interim leader, Bob Rae, before settling on Justin Trudeau. If […]
