Proud to be Canadian? Tory voters less likely to say yes than others: poll
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Canadians' pride in their nationality, like most things these days, seems to be divided down partisan lines, a new Leger survey suggests.
Canadians’ pride in their nationality, like most things these days, seems to be divided down partisan lines, a new poll suggests.
While a strong majority of the 1,512 respondents to the survey by Leger said they were proud to be Canadian – 81 per cent – the poll suggests the feeling is less common among Conservative supporters than their Liberal counterparts.
Experts say that while the results of the survey may be surprising given Conservatives’ reputation as a patriotic party, it reflects their malcontent with the direction in which Canada is headed.
The poll found 97 per cent of those who listed their voting intentions as Liberal said they were very or somewhat proud to be Canadian, as did 87 per cent of NDP-leaning respondents. That number dipped among Conservative voters, just 76 per cent of whom answered in the affirmative.
An even smaller portion of the 30 respondents who said they vote for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) said they were proud to be Canadian: just 45 per cent.
“Conservatism is often associated with patriotism, right?” said Daniel Beland, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. “In this case, you don’t have that because there is discontent towards the federal government, towards federal policies, and maybe also towards the direction the country is heading.”
Across all respondents, six per cent said they were not at all proud to be Canadian. But among Conservative respondents, the portion was eight per cent. Twelve per cent of those who vote for the separatist Bloc Quebecois and 27 per cent of PPC voters said they were not at all proud to be Canadian.
“Some people, when they think about ‘Are you proud to be Canadian,’ they think about, ‘Are you proud of being under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, are you proud to be under the Liberal leadership,” Beland said.
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