Canadians will not be feeling the belief with their neighbours south of the border after months of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs in opposition to Canada, new polling by Ipsos performed solely for Global News has confirmed.
Six in 10 Canadians (60 per cent) say they’ll by no means belief the Americans the identical approach ever once more, the ballot discovered.
“It appears to me, primarily based on these knowledge, that Canadians really feel that their relationship with the United States has modified in a basic approach,” Ipsos Public Affairs CEO Darrell Bricker mentioned.
“They’re in search of Canada to create one thing that protects our personal sovereignty inside a North American context and be sure that we’re capable of survive on this a part of the continent that we stay on as an unbiased nation.”
In March, Trump imposed his first spherical of tariffs on Canada. This was adopted by months of on-again-off-again tariffs, counter-tariffs and commerce uncertainty between Canada and its largest buying and selling associate, together with repeated remarks by Trump about annexing Canada.
The Ipsos ballot discovered that 71 per cent Canadians really feel that these Canada-U.S. disputes will proceed for a number of years and will not be going to be resolved quickly.
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The ballot additionally requested respondents whether or not they approve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s dealing with of the connection with the U.S.
Around half (51 per cent) mentioned they approve of the best way Carney and the federal authorities are managing Canada – U.S. relations, whereas one-third (32 per cent) disapprove and 18 per cent will not be positive.
This is in distinction to the 60 per cent of the respondents who mentioned in June that they had confidence of their political leaders to “handle” Trump.
Thursday’s ballot discovered that 42 per cent of Canadians mentioned they consider Carney will achieve negotiating a brand new commerce cope with the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, 22 per cent disagree and the rest are undecided (37 per cent).
“During the course of the election marketing campaign, the large dedication that the prime minister made was he was the one who would be capable to ship some form of a cope with the United States that may get us via these tariff points. But Canadians don’t have a whole lot of confidence that that’s really going to occur, or at the least anytime fast,” Bricker mentioned.
Bricker mentioned the rise of the ‘Buy Canadian’ motion goes to current challenges to American manufacturers working in Canada.
“If you’re an American model in Canada today you’re going to have an attention-grabbing relationship with governments, however you’re additionally going to have an attention-grabbing relationship with shoppers and client residents,” he mentioned.
The ‘Buy Canadian’ sentiment has held regular amongst Canadians. In June, a PwC ballot confirmed that 75 per cent of Canadian shoppers mentioned they’d pay extra for premium or domestically produced meals merchandise.
Canadians are additionally extra reluctant to journey to the U.S. An Ipsos Poll performed solely for Global News for Canada Day discovered round three-quarters of Canadians surveyed say they intend to keep away from journey to the U.S.
Statistics Canada knowledge additionally reveals a decline in Canada-U.S. journey.
The adverse notion amongst Canadians concerning the U.S. got here with a renewed sense of patriotism for a lot of, with almost half of these surveyed in June (47 per cent) saying they’re extra more likely to really feel proud to be a Canadian than they have been 5 years in the past, up a whopping 31 factors since final June.
Most Canadians consider that Canada’s issues run deeper than Trump, with solely 30 per cent saying that “when Trump goes away all of Canada’s issues go away.”
These are a few of the findings of an Ipsos ballot performed between September 9 and 12, 2025 as a part of
our Trump, Tariffs, and Turmoil syndicated examine. For this survey, a pattern of n=2,001 Canadians aged 18+ was interviewed on-line, through the Ipsos I-Say panel and non-panel sources, and respondents earn a nominal incentive for his or her participation. Quotas and weighting have been employed to steadiness
demographics to make sure that the pattern’s composition displays that of the grownup inhabitants in accordance
to Census knowledge and to offer outcomes meant to approximate the pattern universe. The precision of
Ipsos polls which embody non-probability sampling is measured utilizing a credibility interval. In this case, the ballot is correct to inside ± 2.7 share factors, 19 instances out of 20, had all Canadians been polled.
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