Ep. 262: Predicting Canada’s Federal Election in 2019
Guest: Mario Canseco, Research Co.
The environment was supposed to dominate the 2019 election in Canada.
However, long before the news of the prime minister in brownface broke, pollster Mario Canseco was saying he doubts climate will dominate. In fact, he says it is very difficult to say that one issue will resonate across the country. In Quebec and BC, yes, the environment is high on the agenda. In Alberta, resistance to climate policies top the polls. Ontario, the Maritimes and the Prairies all have different top issues.
Who do you see as your prime minister? This may be the polarizing question that will make people rally behind one leader or the other. The current prime minister has been battered and bruised by environmental decisions that are at odds with one another. On one hand, he wants to build a pipeline; on the other, he wants to stop the use of fossil fuels. He’s twice been found to have acted outside the ethics of the office he holds and still, he probably stands the best chance of calling Sussex Drive home for the next four years.
The challenge for voters is they don’t hate him the way they despised Steven Harper and they don’t love anyone else.
We invited Mario Canseco to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the myriad issues in play for the federal election in Canada and why picking a winner is becoming harder and harder.
