Photo: The Canadian Press Prime Minister Justin Trinto meets with US President Joe Biden at the US Summit in Los Angeles, California, Thursday, June 9, 2022. A new poll shows Canadians are becoming more assertive about the United States as a credible global partner – but they are losing faith in the man who currently rules the country. In a Pew Research Center poll today, 61 percent of Canadian respondents said they trusted President Joe Biden to do the right thing on the world stage. This is 16 percentage points lower than the 77 percent who said the same thing in 2021. At the same time, 84 percent of Canadians surveyed said they consider the United States a somewhat or very reliable partner – a 16-point increase over the previous year. That includes a 10-point increase in the percentage of those who see the US as very reliable: 21 percent in 2022, compared to just 11 percent in 2021. The Canadian part of the survey was conducted by telephone with 1,324 respondents between February 14 and April 24 and has an error margin of 3.3 percentage points. “While it is still relatively high in most places, confidence in the US president has fallen sharply since 2021 in almost all of the countries surveyed,” Pew said in a statement. “Some initial enthusiasm for a new president may wane after his first year, but the decline in confidence from 2021 is far greater than any small drop Obama saw in 2010 or 2011 in the same countries.” This Canadian Press report was first published on June 22, 2022.
