New Leger poll suggests CPC, Poilievre support growing

A new poll suggests support for Pierre Poilievre is growing, and most Canadians are optimistic about their household finances.

Support for the CPC was up one point to 41 per cent in the latest Leger tracking poll, which asks respondents for their voting intentions each month.

Liberal support held steady at 25 per cent, while the NDP dropped two points to 18 per cent.

The pollster surveyed 1,554 Canadians last weekend, asking questions about their preferred choice for prime minister and the state of the economy.

The poll cannot be assigned a margin of error because online surveys are not considered truly random samples.

In all, 61 per cent of respondents said their household finances are good or very good, down two percentage points from January.

Another 36 per cent rated their finances as poor or very poor. Just shy of half the respondents in Atlantic Canada fell into that group.

The survey found 48 per cent of respondents were living paycheque to paycheque — a problem most acute for people under age 55 — and more than a third reported being concerned about losing their job in the next year.

The political results follow a trend that began last July, when Conservatives leapt ahead of the Liberals.

That month, 35 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the Tories, putting them six percentage points ahead of the governing Liberals.

Two-thirds of those surveyed in the new poll said they’re dissatisfied with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, including 42 per cent who said they’re very dissatisfied.