Ninety-five per cent of Canadians don’t trust politicians
Posted July 3, 2012 8:54 am.
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OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – Think you have nothing in common with politicians? A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel the exact same way.
The Ipsos-Reid online survey done for Postmedia News found 95 per cent of those asked feel politicians have little or nothing in common with them. Those same people also don’t believe the political elite in Ottawa understands the values and aspirations of average people.
The poll also reveals we generally don’t trust our elected officials, especially at the provincial and federal levels and that we feel we pay too much in taxes and don’t get good value in return.
Pollsters say this part of a broader trend they call a “decline in deference.”
You couldn’t find a better example of that than when the Prime Minister was heckled in Quebec City over the long weekend.
Stephen Harper was addressing a world forum concerning the French language. His speech was briefly interrupted by the shouts of a protester who walked to the front of the room and yelled, “Stop Harper, stop Jean Charest.”
