Trudeau government’s own polling program is saying it’s in trouble

globalnews.ca:

A detailed series of internal government polls obtained by Global News paints a picture of a government struggling to win approval from Canadians on just about any issue, while showing sharp regional differences when it comes to the top priorities voters want Ottawa to tackle.

Weekly polls commissioned by the Privy Council Office from January through to June show a government given a failing grade by a healthy majority for the way it was handling the economy, climate change, Indigenous issues and crime.

Only on the issue of Canada-U.S. relations did a majority of respondents — 51 per cent — agree the government was on the right track when it came to managing that file.

Overall, through the first six months, the majority of the 24,000 or so who were polled said, week in, week out, that the Trudeau government was on the wrong track.

The polling program is run by the Privy Council Office, each polling question is vetted by the prime minister’s director of research and the results are used by the prime minister and his top advisors and by cabinet and deputy ministers to shape federal government policy.

The net result of that January-June trend line that consistently showed Canadians thought the government was going in the wrong direction: a cabinet shuffle in July and an attempt by the prime minister and his close advisors to reset their focus and agenda.

One of the cabinet’s strongest performers, Nova Scotia’s Sean Fraser, was tasked to lead that reset as the minister for housing and infrastructure.

The polling data was obtained by Global News through access to information laws. The data for June is the most recent that has been made available.

The PCO polling program divides the country into six geographical regions and in