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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to discuss health care with provincial and territorial premiers in Ottawa, Feb. 7, 2023.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to discuss health care with provincial and territorial premiers in Ottawa, Feb. 7, 2023.
That's a variation on the common poll question, "Is the country headed in the wrong direction?" and I have seldom seen a negative answer so high.
It might even be doubly surprising because the "Canada is broken" mantra is closely aligned with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. For a lot of poll respondents, agreeing that the country is dysfunctional is equivalent to admitting they kind of, sort of think Poilievre might be onto something.
But what is really, truly surprising is that the most pessimistic Canadians are women and younger people, not grumpy, old men.
Women think Canada is broken more than men do, by a margin of 70% to 64%, just as Canadians under 55 are even more pessimistic than those over 55 - 72% to 61%.
Totally unsurprising is the fact that Westerners are more convinced Canada is a mess than are the residents of other regions. Given that the Trudeau government goes out of its way to anger and repress the West, it's consistent that nearly three-quarters of Manitobans, Saskatchewanians and Albertans feel the country isn't working.
Comment: Whilst it's worth something that Switzerland's citizens see the inherent dangers posed by a cashless society, and that their direct democracy poses an impediment to the establishments various agendas, as we saw with the lockdowns in the country, ultimately, with the mass media serving as a social engineering unit, and with an easily hystericised and uniformed public, it's likely only a matter of time before their country too is made to fall into line.