Canadians much more likely to prefer increasing rather than decreasing spending on natural disaster prevention. (CTV/Nanos)

Canadians are over six times more likely to prefer increasing spending on disaster prevention even if it leads to an increase in the tax burden (47%) as opposed to decreasing the current spending (seven per cent). Over one in three (37%) prefer maintaining the current level of spending.

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,035 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between July 29th to August 1st, 2024 as part of an omnibus survey. Participants were randomly recruited by telephone using live agents and administered a survey online.

The margin of error for this survey is ±3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

This study was commissioned by CTV News and the research was conducted by Nanos Research.

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