Asked what they think Canada’s future trade relationship with China should be, over one in two think Canada should decrease trade with China (55%), which is a drop of six percentage point from the November 2022 wave (61%), but still above the benchmark in December 2022 (45%). Residents of Quebec are more likely to say that Canada should decrease trade with China (61%) than those from British Columbia (51%)

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,096 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between May 31st and June 3rd, 2023 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 ±3.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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

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