Tories maintain double-digit lead over Liberals, more voters worried about immigration: poll

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives remain considerably more popular with voters than the governing Liberals, according to a new poll.

Nanos’s latest survey puts the Tories on 41 per cent, 14 points ahead of the Grits on 27.

The poll also puts the NDP, whose support in the House of Commons allows the Liberals to stay in power, on 17 per cent.

Nanos said it conducted interviews with 1,103 Canadian adults during the week ending June 21.

That means the survey did not take account of the Liberals’ loss of Toronto-St. Paul’s on Monday, a shock upset that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said was a disappointment.

Poilievre, meanwhile, said the PM “must go” in the wake of the by-election defeat.

Nanos’s survey also found the respondents were more concerned about immigration, housing, homelessness and national security than those it questioned in May.

Canada has seen vast numbers of immigrants moving to the country in recent years, with the population growing by 1.3 million in 2023.

Political figures, chief among them Trudeau, have issued warnings about the negative effects of large-scale migration in recent months.

On Monday, Statistics Canada said that – according to one of its projections – Canada's population could grow to 87.2 million by the year 2072.

According to the Nanos poll, however, inflation remained the top concern among participants, despite a decline in the proportion of people listing it as the country’s biggest problem. May's inflation rate, released this week, was 2.9 per cent.

Concern also declined on the topics of jobs, health care and the environment.

To read the full survey, click here.

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