That is The Week in Polling, your Saturday dose of fascinating numbers from prime pollsters in Canada and world wide, curated by The Hub. Right here’s what we’re taking a look at this week.
4 in ten younger Canadians wish to be American, if citizenship and conversion of property to USD was assured
A latest Ipsos ballot discovered that over 40 p.c of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 would vote for Canada to change into the 51st American state, if the U.S. supplied all Canadians full U.S. citizenship, a full conversion of the Canadian greenback, and all their private monetary property to transformed into U.S. {dollars}.
Amongst Canadians between the ages of 35 and 54, 33 p.c would vote for Canada to change into the 51st state. The least enthused have been older Canadians. Seventeen p.c of these over the age of 55 would additionally vote for Canada to change into the 51st state. General, 31 p.c of Canadians would vote for the annexation of Canada below these circumstances.
When requested whether or not they would vote to make Canada a part of the U.S.—with out specifying any perks—just below 80 p.c of Canadians aged 18 to 54 and practically 90 p.c of these over 55 mentioned they’d not think about it.
Trump mentioned in a briefing final week in North Carolina that one of many different perks he would supply Canadians is “a very big tax cut—a tremendous tax cut—because [Canadians] are very highly taxed.” He even went as far as to say that Canadians would “have much better health coverage,” if Canada have been to change into the 51st state.
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