The angriest Canadian provinces were revealed and one region is more annoyed than any other
While Canadians are famously known for their politeness, it turns out that many Canucks are actually seeing red — and not just in the country's flag.
A new study measuring the mood of Canadians regarding their governments, the economy, and current events discovered that citizens have "record levels of anger," with certain provinces angrier than others.
Pollara Strategic Insights, a Toronto-based polling company, has been tracking levels of anger across the country since 2022 in its Rage Index.
The poll measures Canadians' anger and annoyance toward six factors: the federal government, the provincial government, the Canadian economy, the individual's financial situation, the types of changes happening in Canada, and the latest stories in the news.
To determine levels of outrage felt across the country, Pollara polled 1,507 Canadian adults over four days between April 22 and 26, 2024.
The index shows who is the angriest — according to this year's data, Ontario takes the cake as the most outraged province in Canada, with 62% of people in the province annoyed or angry about the six topics, on average.
In second were the Atlantic provinces, with 59% of people angry or annoyed with the six topics. Following them were B.C. and Alberta, where 58% of people in each province were found to be angry or annoyed, and Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where 54% of residents were found to feel this way.
The least angry province in Canada was Quebec, where 50% of residents were annoyed or angry about the six topics.
According to Pollara, this year's index shows the "highest level of anger across Canada" since tracking began.
"This includes new highs when it comes to the share of Canadians angry about the economy (67%) and angry towards the provincial (56%) and federal (60%) governments," says the company.
Unfortunately, the company notes that the federal budget, tabled in April, has "done nothing to dissipate the level of anger towards the federal government," with more Canadians having negative (40%) rather than positive (18%) feelings towards it.
That said, many individual items in the budget generate more positive than negative emotions among Canadians, says Pollara.
A majority of residents felt pleased or very happy about measures like funding community health organizations to provide more mental health care to young people, funding an expansion to school food programs, building new housing on underused land owned by the federal government, and funding a program to provide free contraception and insulin to Canadians.
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