No budget bounce for Trudeau as voters react to budget with a shrug
Poll shows that very few think the budget will help them personally and it's not helping Trudeau politically.
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Poll shows that very few think the budget will help them personally and it's not helping Trudeau politically.
On a rainy Friday this month, industry executives and government officials were sitting on the fourth floor of a Vancouver casino hotel. From the stage, a pitch for the future of forestry was on repeat: what if logging companies could be the heroes who saved British Columbia from wildfires?
Trailing badly in the polls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has set an internal goal of narrowing the Conservative Party’s double-digit lead by five points every six months.
The federal budget is part of an incremental strategy to regain support from younger voters to climb out of a deep polling gap, say sources
A new poll from Abacus Data shows the Conservatives are now leading the Liberals by 20 points. The poll was taken after the carbon tax hike took effect, and represents Pierre Poilievre's biggest lead yet.