China News Service, Toronto, August 2nd. A poll conducted at the end of July showed that most Canadians believed that elections should be avoided during the new crown epidemic.
The results of a survey of nearly 1,100 adults conducted by Nanos Research, a polling agency commissioned by Canadian Television (CTV) from July 26 to 30, showed that 51% of the respondents agreed that the epidemic should end or Avoid elections before the vaccine is available; about 20% said they more agreed. About 28% said "disagree" or "somewhat disagree".
Data map: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. China News Agency issued MSC/Kuhlmann photo
The reason for this poll is that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Treasurer Monod have recently been involved in the student service grant program. As a relief measure from the epidemic, the Canadian government announced in late June that it would entrust a grant program totaling more than 900 million Canadian dollars to an organization called "Our Charity." But the agency was exposed to have close relations with the Trudeau family and Mono's family. The Ethics Commissioner of the Canadian Parliament has launched an investigation into whether Trudeau and Monod have violated the Conflict of Interest Act. The two also publicly apologized to the people for this.
The Liberal Party led by Trudeau won only a handful of governments in the October 2019 general election. The opposition Quebec Group recently threatened that it might propose a motion of no confidence when the parliament resumes at the end of September this year. If the parliament votes of no confidence and the Liberal Party loses, the federal election will be triggered.
But according to this poll, most Canadians do not want to vote in the general election again before the fall of the epidemic. This poll also shows that most interviewees believe that the parliament should conduct a comprehensive investigation into the bursary program or "focus on more important things."
A survey conducted by Ipsos, a polling agency commissioned by the Canadian Global News Television in mid-May, also showed that 72% of respondents believed that elections should be postponed during the epidemic.
In fact, some provincial and municipal elections in Canada have been postponed due to the epidemic. In New Brunswick, the municipal elections originally scheduled for May this year were postponed for one year; the two provincial by-elections originally scheduled for mid-June were also postponed. In British Columbia, several local by-elections scheduled for April elections have also been postponed. (Finish)