Category: Issues of concern

For the past six months, consumer confidence has generally been in neutral territory as Canadians wait to see what the next steps in the Canada US trade relationship might bring.  In this context people are neither exuberant or despondent. – Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone… Continue Reading Waiting to exhale: Canadian consumer confidence trapped in neutral (Bloomberg/Nanos)

Canadian consumer confidence remains almost perfectly neutral as we open up 2026 with the environment neither encouraging positivity nor advancing negativity. – Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,054 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four waves of tracking ending… Continue Reading Consumer confidence stranded in neutral (Bloomberg/Nanos)

Consumer confidence nationally remains mired in neutral. Of note, Ontarians have the most negative consumer confidence followed by British Columbians. Confidence in those two provinces is the most negative. – Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,059 respondents in Canada. This report is… Continue Reading Consumer confidence mired in neutral. Ontarians and BC’ers negative. (Bloomberg/Nanos)