Canadians who have a negative or somewhat negative impression of someone who is a Senator has decreased by fourteen percentage points since the start of the tracking period in 2016 (Senator Dasko/Nanos)

Positive impressions of a Senator relate to the view that they are hard-working public servants. Negative impressions of a Senator include many qualities: Senators are unaccountable, too partisan,  out of touch, lazy, too costly, unelected, not useful. Awareness of changes to the Senate on the decline. Those who have heard or read about changes most frequency say the changes were about increased independence and non-partisan in general, which remains consistent with previous years.

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,069 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between March 31st to April 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 a random survey of 1,069 Canadians is ±3.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

The research was commissioned by Senator Dasko and was conducted by Nanos Research.

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