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Trudeau’s personal approval rating drops, but voters still back his federal Liberal Party: poll
By Peter Mazereeuw Feb. 26, 2018
The Liberals and Conservatives would get roughly the same popular support now as they did in the 2015 election, a survey shows.
Far fewer people approve of the job Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is doing than did last May, but his governing Liberal Party has yet to be seriously affected by that drop. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s personal approval rating has dropped nearly 10 points since last May, but the Liberal Party of Canada has yet to take a hit, polling as strongly as it did when the Grits won a majority in the 2015 federal election, according to the latest poll from Campaign Research.
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