Trudeau’s approval rating climbs following election win: poll

Just three weeks after Justin Trudeau’s majority victory, it appears the prime minister’s approval rating has skyrocketed, according to a new poll.
The Forum Research survey suggests that of the 1,256 Canadian voters sampled, 60 per cent approve of Trudeau, up 11 points from the week before the election.
The survey’s author called the the prime minister’s “net favourable score,” which subtracts the disapproval numbers from the approval numbers, “unprecedented” at 40 per cent.By contrast, Tom Mulcair’s approval rating has dipped considerably. On Oct. 7, Mulcair enjoyed 49 per cent support but Forum’s recently released survey suggests he now only has an approval rating of about 34 per cent. His net favourable score also dropped substantially from 15 to -5, the survey says.
“This is more a love-in than a honeymoon. These are approval ratings usually reserved for popular mayors, not Prime Ministers in a very competitive partisan environment,” Lorne Bozinoff, president of Forum Research, said in his written analysis accompanying the poll.
The survey also suggests that as many as 72 per cent are satisfied with the election outcome and more than 40 per cent are “very satisfied.”
Trudeau’s gender-balanced cabinet also appears to have been positively received by Canadians. More than 70 per cent of respondents supported the prime ministers decision to create a cabinet with an equal number of women and men.
The poll was conducted between Nov. 4 and Nov. 7, 2015 and is considered accurate plus or minus three per centage points, 19 times out of 20.

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