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.
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”.
At first I read your comment as “An unapologetically pro-wrestler direction.” And it sounded awesome
Trudeau should continue. He knows how to handle Trump.
He’s the only one I would trust to tell Trump to go fly a kite,
The same way Chretien did to Bush Jr and his bullshit.
The last thing Canada needs is to follow the US into the whole they’re digging.
Bruh, have you seen the polling? PP as PM is a foregone conclusion, despite what I might want.
There’s potentially a lot of time before the next election, and campaigns matter.
Things look bleak, but I don’t think I’d call it a “foregone conclusion.”
I’m so afraid that the American apathy will spread to us here and we’ll get a right wing government.
I’ve had to hold my nose and vote JT because the conservative party runs a nutjob or moron to go up against him, over and over. And jagmeet Singh just hides under a desk hoping the election passes him over.
I wish the NDP got a leader who actually wants to win
Hot take - the NDP should only run candidates in ridings they’re likely to win, and they should scream from the rooftops that voting for those candidates won’t vote-split in favour of a con. The campaign money would go further, the probability of electing cons due to vote split drops significantly, they likely get more NDP MPs elected, the probability of a majority government decreases, hold higher power over a minority government. If it works, rinse and repeat, gaining more MPs every time.
Ford got a majority government in Ontario with only 17% of the potential votes.
The problem is that for years the NDP has swung further centrist instead of further left, giving us no true left party (except the Greens, who’ve been in damage control for years now).
Jack Layton did that in the hopes he could lead the NDP to a national win. Problem was he got sick and couldn’t follow through … so now we’re left with nothing.
The Greens are also full of crazy people, and very inconsistent from member to member. Greens run the gamut of “We need to stop climate change while also helping the poor”, to “Vaccines are evil, you need to sun your yoni instead, and 9/11 was an inside job that also never happened”.
Even if they can stop having negative headlines, they would need a constant platform and candidate vetting process to get my vote again.
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
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.
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.
…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.