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Another 27 per cent of respondents to the Leger survey said they consider the United States to be a 91裸聊视频渘eutral91裸聊视频� country.
The poll comes as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to impose economically devastating tariffs on Canada and has repeatedly pushed the idea that Canada should become a U.S. state.
The poll was conducted between Feb. 14 and Feb. 17 and surveyed 1,500 Canadians and 1,000 Americans. Because it was conducted online, it can91裸聊视频檛 be assigned a margin of error.
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91裸聊视频淭he responses basically speak to the level of animosity that we feel right now in Canada and that are triggering kind of a broader rally-around-the-flag effect in all aspects of our lives,91裸聊视频� Dallaire said.
Only one per cent of Americans told Leger they consider Canada an enemy country, while 56 per cent said they view Canada as an ally.
An overwhelming majority of Canadians dislike Trump; 74 per cent of respondents said they have an unfavourable view of the U.S. president. Dallaire said it91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渉ard to get more consensual results when you ask a question like this.91裸聊视频�
Seven per cent said they didn91裸聊视频檛 know enough about Trump to offer an opinion, while only 13 per cent overall said they had a favourable opinion of him.
That number is higher among Conservative party supporters; 27 per cent of them said they have a favourable view of Trump, compared to only five and seven per cent of Liberal and NDP supporters, respectively.
Conservatives were also more likely to have a positive view of the United States 91裸聊视频� 48 per cent of Conservative supporters surveyed described it as an ally, while only 18 per cent called it an enemy state.
Just 20 per cent of Liberals and 21 per cent of NDP supporters said the U.S. was an ally, while 37 per cent of Liberal supporters and 34 per cent of New Democrats said it was an enemy. Nearly half of Bloc Qu茅b茅cois voters 91裸聊视频� 47 per cent 91裸聊视频� said the United States is an enemy country.
91裸聊视频淭here is a partisan difference in terms of how people feel about this,91裸聊视频� Dallaire said. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 clearly a pretty big gap between Conservative supporters and Liberal, NDP and Bloc supporters.91裸聊视频�
The polling industry91裸聊视频檚 professional body, the Canadian Research Insights Council, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.
