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”.
They need a new leader I think
Honestly, as much as I hate to say it, I suspect racism stops them from getting some votes. Jagmeet also seems to have the personality (at least publicly) of leftover chicken noodle soup.
I used to hate Mulcair, but he might actually do better polling right now.
That’s certainly a problem, but in general he does not come across as working class, he comes across as quite wealthy. He also doesn’t get policy into the news often enough, despite some things on their platform sounding good.
And then he hasn’t done anything to assuage concerns NDP policy will be bad for the economy, which if you look at the US it’s clear the perception of being good for the economy is at the forefront of everyone’s minds (whether or not that’s based in reality).
I did have someone mention they felt that having a Sikh PM would not be good with escalating tensions with India. That line felt kinda racist to me. I don’t think that’s why he doesn’t connect with voters though.
Definitely some great points - I especially like the connection you make between the economy and his platform.
It’s awful that the US elected someone who will make that economy so much worse though, at least for the working class.
This is my problem with him and by extension the NDP. One example that stuck with me was the theatrical questioning of Galen Weston. That was such a transparent pointless finger wagging… It shows Jagmeet is not willing to actually employ the tools that will help the working class. He could have instead say the big bad words that the owner class is afraid of - price controls, company breakup, nationalization. These words send a strong message to people that their grocery prices might actually come down. I just looked at the NDP’s page on affordability and there’s no mention of groceries. Grocery prices are an acute problem for the working class.
Did you see the clip last month where he humiliated those useful idiots?
Is he still hiding under the table hoping he’s forgotten till after the election?
At first I read your comment as “An unapologetically pro-wrestler direction.” And it sounded awesome
A factory worker would probably make better wrestler than an exec, so you might not be too far off. 😂
I asked an AI image generator to show us the next liberal leader
Can you ask it to refund the energy it used to generate that?
The thing about Canadian federal politics is they’re usually all unknown to the general population until they’re nominated. We don’t follow politicians like the u.s does so much. Pretty much every candidate that loses is immediately forgotten. I can’t remember the names of the last few people the cons had in charge after Harper. So if you asked me who should take over from Trudeau, I have no clue who is who and what they do. I can’t name anyone really. From any party.
It’s like we focus on the parties but not the individual politicians who are mostly interchangeable
Not to mention that people now consume all their news online - mostly on social media - which don’t publish Canadian news anymore. So all they read about are American news.
We barely see anything about our politicians and politics.
Part of this is our polticians don’t make enough effort to make their names known. It would be nice if they reached out more with what they want to propose and what they’ve been doing for Canadians.
I suspect the reason behind that is they are only allowed to speak publically when the party’s old boys’ network gives them permission. And that drives me f’ing bonkers.
A real problem.
Yeah it’s like they have no individual identity outside of their party
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
…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
Wonder who bankrolled this poll.
