About the Nanos Policy Map surveys and its methodology

Nanos Policy Map tracking is conducted by the Nanos Research Corporation, which is headquartered in Canada and operates both in Canada and the United States. Parallel questions on Canadian national issues are tracked by means of a hybrid telephone and online random sample of Canadians each year.

The questions in the Nanos Policy Map survey are as follows:

For each of the challenges, please rate their importance to you on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is not at all important and 10 is very important in terms of Canada’s future [Randomize]

  1. Managing the pressures of an aging population
  2. Further protecting our environment
  3. Having trade policies that encourage investment
  4. Encouraging Canadian culture
  5. Being energy self sufficient
  6. Ensuring Canadians have a high standard of living
  7. Investing in our education system
  8. Keeping our healthcare system strong
  9. Creating jobs
  10. Preserving social programs
  11. Balancing government budgets
  12. Investing in infrastructure such as roads and bridges
  13. Ensuring safe communities
  14. Asserting Canada’s role in international affairs
  15. Protecting our borders
  16. Fighting terrorism
  17. Improving the quality of life for First Nations living on reserves

For each of the challenges, are you confident, somewhat confident, somewhat not confident or not confident in our ability as a nation to find solutions? [Randomize]

  1. Managing the pressures of an aging population
  2. Further protecting our environment
  3. Having trade policies that encourage investment
  4. Encouraging Canadian culture
  5. Being energy self sufficient
  6. Ensuring Canadians have a high standard of living
  7. Investing in our education system
  8. Keeping our healthcare system strong
  9. Creating jobs
  10. Preserving social programs
  11. Balancing government budgets
  12. Investing in infrastructure such as roads and bridges
  13. Ensuring safe communities
  14. Asserting Canada’s role in international affairs
  15. Protecting our borders
  16. Fighting terrorism
  17. Improving the quality of life for First Nations living on reserves