{"id":415707,"date":"2022-03-13T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/338canada-trumpism-is-alive-and-well-on-canadas-right\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:53:10","slug":"338canada-trumpism-is-alive-and-well-on-canadas-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/338canada-trumpism-is-alive-and-well-on-canadas-right\/","title":{"rendered":"#338Canada: Trumpism is alive and well on Canada&#8217;s right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b5e7b57a3f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b5e7b57a3f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/338canada-trumpism-is-alive-and-well-on-canadas-right\/#%E2%80%9C338Canada_Trumpism_is_alive_and_well_on_Canadas_right%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;338Canada: Trumpism is alive and well on Canada&#8217;s right&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C338Canada_Trumpism_is_alive_and_well_on_Canadas_right%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;338Canada: Trumpism is alive and well on Canada&#8217;s right&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            Philippe J. Fournier: Almost two years and a failed insurrection later, a significant number of Canadian Conservatives still support former president Trump\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        In the waning days of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, L\u00e9ger conducted a poll to take the pulse of Canadian voters on the tightly contested presidential race south of the border. Unsurprisingly\u2014considering Trump\u2019s tumultuous relationship with Canada and his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently random impositions of tariffs on several Canadian exports (steel, aluminium and other resources)\u2014a vast majority of Canadians sided with then-Democratic candidate (and eventual winner) Joe Biden by a hefty margin. Mind you, this was before the well-documented post-election attempts by Trump to overturn the election in his favour, and before the violent January 6 insurrection on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>As President Joe Biden approaches his mid-mandate mark, and considering that Donald Trump remains to this day the presumptive favourite for the 2024 Republican primaries, what do Canadians think about this potential rematch for the White House? In its latest federal poll, L\u00e9ger asked the very same hypothetical question as in 2020 to its panel: \u201cIf you could vote in the U.S. presidential election, would you vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among all respondents, two-thirds of Canadians (65 per cent) would support President Joe Biden, against only 15 per cent of respondents who would side for Trump (and another 21 per cent do not know). Among decided voters, Biden gets the nod from 81 per cent of Canadian voters according to L\u00e9ger, against 19 per cent for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down the results by polling regions of the country, we see little regional variations, aside from Alberta where support for Trump is highest at 33 per cent (for context, this is a proportion similar to the 2020 results in the state of Vermont). Support for Trump is lowest in Atlantic Canada, British Columbia and Quebec:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/338Canada.com\/polls.htm\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/qc125.com\/proj\/2022-03-13-reg.png\" width=\"680\" vspace=\"18\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also see a modest gender split, as Trump fares moderately better among Canadian men (22 per cent) than women (15 per cent). As for generational divide, we see only marginal variations by age groups, see graph below:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/338Canada.com\/polls.htm\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/qc125.com\/proj\/2022-03-13-age.png\" width=\"680\" vspace=\"18\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since this L\u00e9ger poll also measured federal voting intentions (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/2g2ckk18vixp3neolz4b6605-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Federal_Politics-March-2022_1.pdf\">see report here<\/a>), we can therefore cross-reference federal party support with the results of the Biden-Trump question. Whereas we see marginal Trump support among Liberal, NDP, and Bloc voters (between 3 and 5 per cent), it is significantly higher with Conservative and PPC voters:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/338Canada.com\/polls.htm\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/qc125.com\/proj\/2022-03-13-party.png\" width=\"680\" vspace=\"18\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Note: The sample of Green voters was too small to be statistically viable, but, for sake of transparency, Biden held a 86-14 per cent advantage among GPC voters.]<\/p>\n<p>When L\u00e9ger asked Canadians about the Biden-Trump match up in the fall of 2020, 41 per cent of Conservative voters sided with Trump. We notice that, almost two years and a failed insurrection later, that support for Trump has barely moved on Canada\u2019s right. Among Maxime Bernier voters, five out of six side with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What is there to make of this data? Naturally, we must use caution not to draw definite conclusions from this obviously hypothetical question about another country, but one would have to play ostrich to not see any correlation between this support for Trump (and Trumpism in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>) with the events surrounding the so-called \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d last month in Ottawa, where Trump flags and other paraphernalia were clearly and proudly on display from many protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Populism is not a new phenomenon in Canada, but its roots have been growing rapidly in the past years\u2014here and in several Western democracies. 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