Federal politicians 'average,' according to survey

A small portion of Canadians think elected officials are doing their jobs well, according to a recent Nanos Research survey.

Canadians were asked in the survey to rate elected officials in various areas on a one-to-10 scale, where one was very poor and 10 was excellent.

These areas included:
- making decisions in the long-term interests of Canada;
- managing policy priorities in a changing situation;
- representing the views of voters that elected them.

Canadians were likely to give an average score of between four and seven to elected officials in all three areas (53.0 per cent, 55.7 per cent and 51.7 per cent, respectively).

Canadians were also asked to compare federal parties in these three areas.

Conservatives were thought to be comparatively better than the other parties at making decisions in the long-term interests of Canada (26.8 per cent) and at managing policy priorities in a changing situation (24.8 per cent), while the NDP was thought to be better at representing the views of voters that elected them (30.9 per cent).

Of note, about two in 10 Canadians were undecided as to which federal party was best in these areas.

Posted by Arron Pickard