If Canadians have to swallow some unpleasant budget medicine next week, most Canadians would rather see Mark Carney, not Pierre Poilievre, holding the spoon, new polling from Abacus Data is showing.
But the same polling also shows that both leaders should be careful about tipping the country into an election with that budget. The Liberal prime minister is still more popular than the Conservative leader, but their parties are tied in the polls and there’s no guarantee that Donald Trump would move votes as he did in the spring election.
