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Trudeau’s personal approval rating drops, but voters still back his federal Liberal Party: poll

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
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