Nearly 70% of Canadians think less of U.S. due to Trump tariffs: Ipsos

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and speech astir making Canada the 51st authorities person made Canadians aggravated — precise angry.

A caller canvass by Ipsos for Global News recovered a whopping 68 per cent of Canadians surveyed deliberation little of the United States arsenic a country, aft Trump threatened Canada’s system with 25 per cent tariffs that were meant to spell into effect this week, earlier being paused.

Nearly fractional of each respondents, 46 per cent, said they powerfully held that antagonistic perception.

“What amazed maine is the strength of the responses,” said Sean Simpson, elder vice president of Ipsos Public Affairs.

The precocious fig of radical voicing beardown opinions, helium said, means “this isn’t immoderate thought they person that they whitethorn oregon whitethorn not enactment on. This is thing that they mean to travel done on. The feelings are visceral.”

According to the poll, two-thirds of Canadians accidental they volition beryllium avoiding purchasing U.S.-made goods moving forward, as a “Buy Canadian” question grows successful effect to Trump’s economical threats.

A akin fig said they would besides debar question to the U.S., with 45 per cent saying they felt powerfully astir their decision.

Simpson said the choler toward the U.S. was strongest among respondents aged 55 and implicit who person a deeper humanities knowing of the bilateral relationship, aft watching past U.S. presidents enactment good with Canada.

“All of those conventions are laying successful shambles astatine the feet of Donald Trump,” helium said. “And truthful older Canadians are saying, ‘My gosh, what is going connected here?'”

He pointed retired that older Canadians are besides much apt to beryllium snowbirds that unrecorded successful the U.S. part-time, making their determination to cancel question southbound of the borderline notable.

The canvass besides spoke to the economical insecurity Trump’s threats person created among Canadians. Nearly 60 per cent of those surveyed said their ain idiosyncratic fiscal concern would endure owed to Trump’s actions.

Sixty per cent said they privation the national authorities to make a “major” subsidy program, akin to the ones launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, to enactment workers affected by U.S. tariffs and retaliatory actions from Canada.

Federal officials announced a process for impacted businesses to petition “exceptional relief” earlier Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached a woody connected Monday that paused the tariffs for 30 days. That intermission means the alleviation program, arsenic good arsenic retaliatory tariffs, were besides enactment connected hold.

While attitudes toward the U.S. were much clear, Canadians look divided connected whether governmental leaders astatine location volition beryllium capable to “manage” Trump. Just nether fractional responded positively, portion 38 per cent said they somewhat oregon powerfully disagree.

That deficiency of resounding assurance reflects not conscionable connected Trudeau but besides the Liberal enactment candidates vying to regenerate him — arsenic good arsenic Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose enactment still leads successful predetermination sentiment polls, but by a narrowing margin.

“At the moment, it seems that the ballot question is moving to who’s champion capable to woody with Canadian-American relations,” Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, told Global News.

Simpson noted that enactment for governmental leaders is higher successful Ontario, wherever provincial Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford is moving for re-election arsenic premier. Ford has said his drawback predetermination telephone was to unafraid a stronger mandate to support the state from Trump’s tariff threats.

Political enactment is lowest successful occidental provinces similar Alberta, which Simpson said reflects the continued antagonistic views determination of the national Liberal government.

“This is going to beryllium a captious question for each of our leaders to found themselves arsenic the idiosyncratic who’s champion capable to woody with Donald Trump, if anybody can,” helium said.

These are immoderate of the findings of an Ipsos canvass conducted betwixt January 30 and February 3, 2025, connected behalf of Global News. For this survey, a illustration of 1,000 Canadians aged 18+ was interviewed online. Quotas and weighting were employed to guarantee that the sample’s creation reflects that of the Canadian colonisation according to census parameters. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured utilizing a credibility interval. In this case, the canvass is close to wrong ± 3.8 percent points, 19 times retired of 20, had each Canadians aged 18+ been polled. The credibility interval volition beryllium wider among subsets of the population. All illustration surveys and polls whitethorn beryllium taxable to different sources of error, including, but not constricted to sum error, and measurement error.