Small majority of Canadians want more trade with China: Ipsos poll
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Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, says the new poll's results 'are less about China and more about the United States' and the economic realities of the U.S. trade war.
As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares to travel to China and seeks to restore trade and diplomatic ties, a small majority of Canadians say they support more trade with Beijing, a new poll suggests.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News, released Saturday, found that 54 per cent expressed support for closer trade ties and economic agreements with China.
The results mark a turnaround from 2020, when eight out of 10 Canadians wanted the country to rely less on the Chinese market amid a nadir in relations sparked by foreign interference allegations against Beijing and the arbitrary detention of the “two Michaels.”
Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, says the new poll’s results “are less about China and more about the United States” and the economic realities of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
“The reason that it’s bounced back is not all of a sudden people have fallen in love with China, which is why the numbers are soft,” Bricker said in an interview.
“The reason that they’ve bounced back is because people are thinking about who in the world we’re going to trade with. And the second largest population in the world, and the second largest economy, is probably a place that we need to have some sort of a relationship with.”
Ipsos contacted 2,001 Canadian adults in early December 2025 for the poll.
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