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How did Canadians react to Trudeau's blackface photos? With a big meh, polls find
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News Date | Monday, September 23, 2019 07:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | How did Canadians react to the election campaign revelations about Justin Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface? With a big meh, polls suggest.
In a new survey conducted by Abacus Data, which looked at reaction to Trudeau’s terrible week and surveyed impressions on the election as a whole, it’s clear that the scandal may not, for now, have had as big an impact as the Conservatives might have hoped.
“The photos and video released late last week was a shock that changed the focus and conversation of the election campaign,” David Coletto of Abacus said in a release accompanying the poll. “But so far, evidence that they have fundamentally changed people’s impressions or intended voting behaviour is quite limited.
“The race remains very close, all the party leaders are viewed less favourably than at the start of the campaign, and most people say that so far, the events of the past few days won’t change their vote.”
The online poll, run between Sept. 18 and 22, gathered the opinions of 1,929 Canadians aged 18 and older.
A separate poll conducted by Nanos and released on the weekend shows more people are now “unsure” who would make the best PM. However, these new numbers also don’t show any major move in the positions of any party in the scandal’s wake. The Nanos poll used a three-day random phone survey of 400 voters per evening.
Some 42 per cent of those polled by Abacus said they weren’t really bothered by seeing the PM caught in brownface and blackface, and 34 per cent said they didn’t like it but accepted his apology and could get over it.
Almost one-quarter — two-thirds of whom were Conservative voters — said they were “truly offended” and that it damaged their view of the PM. |
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