in World News Trudeau hugely unpopular with Gen Z voters despite pandering to them
David Krayden
Trudeau losing support among youngest voters
Even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government seek to attract Gen Z voters with a budget that spoke of “generation fairness” and offered $8.5 billion to build new housing, younger voters are abandoning the Trudeau government in droves.
According to a recent poll from the Angus Reid Institute, 70 percent of Gen Z (aged 18-24) and Millennial (aged 25-44) voters have lost confidence in the federal government to represent their interests. That’s consistent with other age groups who have also lost patience with Trudeau.
After Trudeau plunged the nation into another $40 billion of debt, the poll revealed that 28 percent of Canadians believe the federal government’s deficit spending is the number on concern – double from what it was in a similar survey one year ago.
Canadians are also focusing on different issues as their chief concerns. Climate change is not one of them. Of those responding to Angus Reid, 51 percent cited the cost of living as their most important issue.
Only 10 percent of Gen Z respondents said Trudeau was the best choice for prime minister, behind Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre at 25 percent, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Sinhg at 23 percent and none of the above at 21 percent.
Of those surveyed, 28 percent said Poilievre could best handle the health care file, twice as many as the 14 percent who said Trudeau was the best choice. Singh finished second with 22 percent while 22 percent also indicated that no one listed was up to managing health care.