About three in ten Canadians are worried or somewhat worried about paying for housing costs next month (30%), consistent with the last three waves in March 2023, November 2022 and August 2022. Younger Canadians (aged 18-34: 16%) (aged 35 to 54: 15%) are more likely to be worried than those…

Nanos tracks unprompted issues of concern every week. To access full weekly national and regional tracking visit the Nanos subscriber data portal. Poilievre and Trudeau are the top choices as PM with almost one in five unsure who they would prefer. The environment remains numerically the top national issue of…

Consistent with the past eight waves, pessimism continues to be the top feeling that best describes Canadians’ views of the federal government in Ottawa, followed by anger. Feelings of anger have decreased among residents of Quebec since the previous wave, while feelings of Anger have slightly increased among residents of…

Eight in ten Canadians say less than half of the daily news they consume comes from social media (mean of 29%, median is 15%). Just over one in five Canadians (24%) say they do not get any of their daily news through social media. Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame…

Consumer confidence remains marginally positive. Of note, individuals in Quebec have higher comparative consumer confidence compared to those that live in other parts of the country. -Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,108 respondents in Canada. This report…

Nanos was retained by the Globe and Mail to conduct research among Canadians to gauge their views on the preferred leaders for the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party of Canada, as well as who is the most trusted leader to make Canada a better country…

Canadians are more likely to say they plan on spending less (38%, up from 31% in 2015) than more than they usually spend (13%; 8% in 2015) this summer on their vacation plans. About four in ten say they plan on spending about as much as usual (41%, down from…

Nanos tracks unprompted issues of concern every week. To access full weekly national and regional tracking visit the Nanos subscriber data portal. In the wake of forest fires in different parts of Canada, concern about the environment is up four percentage points in the past four weeks. – Nik Nanos…

Canadian consumer confidence remains in positive territory with a score above 50 points in the diffusion index. Residents in both Quebec and British Columbia have higher levels of confidence compared to those in other parts of the country. -Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land-…

Nanos tracks unprompted issues of concern every week. To access full weekly national and regional tracking visit the Nanos subscriber data portal. Canadians increasing cite the environment as their top issue of concern. Jobs/the economy and inflation remain top tier concerns. – Nik Nanos The Weekly Nanos Tracking is produced…

Canadian consumer confidence remains in marginally positive territory. Of note, the forward looking Bloomberg Nanos Expectations Sub-indices remains in neutral territory. -Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,132 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four…

Nanos tracks unprompted issues of concern every week. To access full weekly national and regional tracking visit the Nanos subscriber data portal. Although there is a three-way tie for the top national issue of concern factoring the margin of error for the research, Canadians are increasingly worried about the environment…

Financial controllers or accountants in the tourism sector surveyed are more likely to say they are somewhat not confident (25%) or not confident (30%) their company will be able to make debt payments that are due over the next two years than somewhat confident (28%) or confident (11%). When asked…

After being in negative territory for most of 2023, Canadian consumer confidence remains above 50 points on the 100 point diffusion index. -Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,126 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the…

Two in three respondents say that higher interest rates have impacted their personal spending negatively (36%) or somewhat negatively (28%), which is an increase since the last wave in February 2019, where two in five said it impacted their spending negatively (20%) or somewhat negatively (22%). Younger Canadians aged 18…

When asked what barriers they have experienced when it comes to accessing housing that meets their needs, a majority (57%) of respondents say housing price/affordability/high down payments. This was followed by income/employment/ personal finances/inflation (30%), lack of housing/ long wait lists (28%) and location/ distance to services/transportation (20%). Just under…

After a steady decline from August 2021 to November 2022, the proportion of Canadians who think it is the best time for Canada to be ambitious in addressing climate change even if there are costs to the economy is on the rise, with almost six in ten who say so…

Asked what they think Canada’s future trade relationship with China should be, over one in two think Canada should decrease trade with China (55%), which is a drop of six percentage point from the November 2022 wave (61%), but still above the benchmark in December 2022 (45%). Residents of Quebec…

Nanos tracks unprompted issues of concern every week. To access full weekly national and regional tracking visit the Nanos subscriber data portal. Jobs/the economy remains the top issue but environment registers a big jump in concern concurrent with fires in Canada. – Nik Nanos The Weekly Nanos Tracking is produced…

Canadian consumer confidence is steadying in marginally positive territory with a score of 52.84 on the 100-point diffusion index. Individuals are three times more likely to be positive rather than negative on the future strength of real estate. -Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land-…