Close to seven in ten Canadians prefer increasing defense spending to reach the current two per cent NATO ally target (69%) of the GDP, followed by those who want to maintain our current level of spending at 1.4% (13%) and those who prefer to increase spending to a potential new…

Canadians are now ten times more likely to say the next generation will have a lower (70%) rather than higher (seven per cent) standard of living than Canadians enjoy today. The seventy per cent of respondents who believe the next generation of Canadians will have a lower standard of living…

Asked to rank the importance of potential spending priorities for the government with additional money in the budget generated from economic growth, close to one in three ranked making our health care system stronger first (29%), followed by affordable housing (17%) and reducing the deficit (14%). Nanos conducted an RDD…

Nanos tracks unprompted issues of concern every week. To access full weekly national and regional tracking visit the Nanos subscriber data portal. Concern about US President Trump/US relations continues to rocket upward in the Nanos weekly tracking on the top national issues of concern. Conservatives and Liberals gripped in a…

Canadian consumer confidence continues to decline primarily driven by the forward looking Expectations Sub-indice.  Of note, two of three Canadians believe the economy will get weaker in the next six months hitting a level on this measure not seen since the depths of the global pandemic in 2020. -Nik Nanos,…