Justin Trudeau still seeing high approval ratings

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The prime minister is up to the job, according to 70 per cent of people polled by Abacus data, but will the love affair continue?

It’s still very much the honeymoon phase for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadians, says UBC political scientist Max Cameron.

“It’s still inevitable to some degree that there’s some erosion of support,” Cameron says. “Just how fast and far that erosion goes can vary. There’s a tendency at the beginning of a government to want to give the government the benefit of the doubt.”

Fresh off a dinner with the Obamas and meetings with the premiers, it won’t be until the tough decisions have to be made that we’ll really see how popular he can remain, according to Cameron.

“When you start to make choices involving allocations of budget or appropriations, and then you confront that the economy is not doing as well as you might hope or was projected, and, in fact, there’s talk the deficit will be greater than what was anticipated,” says Cameron. “The troubles in the economy and particularly troubles regionally across Canada with the economy are going to be one of the major challenges that Trudeau will face.”

The first of those challenges? Budget Day, where surely there will be certain groups feeling left out of federal funding plans.

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