Canadians have a quite glum view of the near future for Canada’s social and economic situation, with only one person in four expressing optimism and significantly more expressing pessimism, but Canadians’ views of their own personal fortunes are much rosier, according to a new polling project.
This strange divergence of attitudes — happy about home, gloomy about country — is also driven by geographical differences, and by a clear partisan split between pessimistic Conservative supporters and optimistic Liberals.
