OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A survey has placed Justin Trudeau as Canada’s least liked prime minister in 55 years amid ongoing backlash over his government’s controversial internet censorship and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis sweeping the nation.
According to a July 4-5 public opinion poll by Research Co., three in ten Canadians rank Justin Trudeau as their least liked prime minister as Canadians face increased censorship and inflation under his leadership.
“Justin Trudeau’s negative rating reaches 45 percent in Alberta, 36 percent in British Columbia and 36 percent in Saskatchewan and Manitoba,” the report stated.
After Trudeau, 18 percent of Canadians placed former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper as their most disliked leader.
The poll further discovered that Trudeau’s father, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, was ranked as Canada’s most liked leader with Harper coming in second.
The survey questioned 1,000 Canadians across the country with a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent, nineteen times out of twenty, meaning that 95 percent of the time the answer will be within 3.1 percent plus or minus the result found by the survey.
Canadian’s dislike for Trudeau’s leadership comes on the heels of the Liberal government passing internet censorship bills C-11 and C-18, giving the federal government a larger role in the regulation of internet content.
Canada’s Senate passed the Online News Act, or Bill C-18, in June and it quickly became law. The House of Commons had passed Bill C-18 in December 2022.
The law mandates that online tech companies be forced to pay publishers for news content shared on their sites. It also gives the Canadian Radio-television and telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the power to determine which news content qualifies for special privileges, such as financial kick-backs from Big Tech platforms where the content is shared.
In response to the law, Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced they would remove news content for Canadians rather than pay to publish it.
As a result, many Canadians can no longer access LifeSiteNews on Instagram.
Last week, the Trudeau government seemed to have caved to Google by amending the internet censorship act to not force companies to pay for Canadian news content, but instead offer “non-monetary offerings.”
The introduction of that amendment appears to contradict Trudeau’s recent remarks in which he condemned Google’s censorship as an “attack” on Canadians.
According to a recent survey by the Angus Reid Institute, most Canadians are concerned about losing access to news due to Bill C-18.
Canadians are also feeling abandoned by Trudeau as they face increased interest rates and high food prices while Trudeau floods LGBT organizations with tax-payer dollars.
Similarly, the Trudeau government seems more concerned with political correctness than military readiness as they recently left Canadian soldiers in Latvia to buy their own military gear while providing recently arrived Danish soldiers with Canadian supplies.