Polls show youth now hate Trudeau more than ever
In the wake of a budget deliberately tailored towards salvaging plummeting youth support, a series of Angus Reid Institute polls show that young people now hate the Trudeau government more than ever.
In a poll published Thursday, Canadians under the age of 24 were asked if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “working in the best interests of their generation.” Seventy-one per cent responded “no.”
To be fair to Trudeau, huge majorities of every generation didn’t see him as working in their best interest — but the dissatisfaction was heaviest among voters who came of age after the Liberals’ 2015 election win.
Seniors, by contrast, remained the most supportive of Trudeau. Among respondents aged 65 and older, a massive 69 per cent disagreed with Trudeau government policy, but 28 per cent still saw the Liberals representing their “best interests.”
The comparable figure among under-24s was just 15 per cent — the lowest of any other age cohort.
Under-24s were also least likely to see Trudeau as the best option for prime minister. While a slim plurality favoured Conservative Pierre Poilievre in the PMO (25 per cent as compared to 23 per cent for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh), just 10 per cent wanted to stick with Trudeau.
“There appears to be much work to do for Trudeau to win over Gen Z and Millennial voters even in the wake of a budget designed to address their concerns,” reads an Angus Reid Institute analysis of the numbers.
The survey was conducted after the Liberals tabled a federal budget under the title “Fairness for Every Generation.” The word “fairness” was mentioned 50 times in official budget document, and all of its main provisions — from affordablehousing pledges to an increase in the capital gains tax — were pitched as totems of “generational fairness.”
In a survey published Wednesday , support for the Liberal Party of Canada stood at just 12 per cent among Canadians aged 18 to 34. That’s not only the lowest of any age demographic, but it’s the lowest of almost any other voter segment that Angus Reid pollsters could imagine.