Premiers’ Performance: Conservative premiers slip in approval after federal election
Canada’s premiers have been passing through Ottawa over the last few weeks to meet with the Prime Minister and share their Christmas wish-lists.
While some meetings, like those with Atlantic Canada’s Liberal premiers, have been more festive in tone, others, like those between the PM and Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe or Alberta’s Jason Kenney, have had more than a hint of humbug.
While Conservative provincial leaders navigate their way through a Liberal minority government, they do so with stark differences in support within their home provinces.
Saskatchewan: Scott Moe
After meeting Prime Minister Trudeau, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe left frustrated, saying he was expecting “more of the same” from this term of the Trudeau mandate. Moe was said to be asking for a one-year exemption from the provincial carbon tax and changes to the federal equalization program. Despite his disappointment in Ottawa, Moe garners the approval of 58 per cent of Saskatchewan residents, making him the second-most popular premier this quarter.
BC Premier John Horgan (NDP) was the lone premier with an increased approval rating from September (56 per cent, up from 54 per cent).
Losing popularity were: Alberta - Jason Kenney (UCP), down six per cent to 54 per cent; Saskatchewan - Scott Moe (Saskatchewan Party), down five per cent to 58 per cent; Manitoba - Brian Pallister (Progressive Conservative), down one per cent to 47 per cent; Ontario - Doug Ford (Progressive Conservative), down two per cent to 35 per cent; Quebec - Francois Legault (Coalition Avenir Quebec), down one per cent to 63 per cent; Nova Scotia - Stephen Mcneil (Liberal), down two per cent to 25 per cent; New Brunswick - Blaine Higgs (Progressive Conservative), down five per cent to 48 per cent; Newfoundland and Labrador - Dwight Ball (Liberal), down nine per cent to 31 per cent.
The full poll can be viewed at www.angusreid.org/ premier-approval-december2019
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