As King Charles III prepare for Tuesday of the open parliamentA royal revival sweeps Canada, with new Ipsos polls showing more Canadians when I saw the monarchy As a significant part of our national identity – something that helps us to distinguish ourselves from Americans.
The survey, published Tuesday by the public affairs of Ipsos exclusively for Global News, revealed that 66% of respondents believe that Canada’s relationship with the monarchy is useful because it helps us to distinguish our neighbors in the south.
This increased by 54% in April 2023 – a notable leap in royal favor.
Sixty-five percent of respondents also said that our links with the monarchy are an important element in Canada’s heritage and play a role in the shaping of who we are, against 58% in April 2023.
Two years later Coronation of King Charles IIICanadian attitudes to the monarchy seem to warm up. Support for the reduction of links with the crown has dropped by 12 points since 2023, while more people now think that the king does a good job, up five points.
The king’s visit intervenes at a time when Canada’s sovereignty has been threatened several times by US President Donald Trump, who has said several times since his re -election that Canada is expected to be the 51st state.
Parliament was extended in January during the winter holidays, and the previous session ended when the federal elections were called.
The start of a new parliament will include elect the speaker of the House of Commons and the discourse of the throne. Normally pronounced by the Governor General – who is the representative of the monarch – this discourse presents the agenda and the priorities of the government.
Although King Charles III is the head of state of Canada and the country remains a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth, his role is mainly a ceremonial.
The Royals make a return – a kind of
In 2023, Ipsos Survey noted that 67% of Canadians thought that the king and the royal family should have no formal role in Canadian society, considering them “celebrities and nothing more”.
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However, the recent Ipsos survey shows that the number fell to 56%
While 46% of Canadians believe that the country should end its official links with the British monarchy, this number has been the lowest level of anti-monarchist feeling since 2016, compared to 58% two years ago.
That said, Quebecers are even more likely than others to support the reduction of these links.
Recognition of the prince’s contribution and the princess of Wales to maintain the relevance of the monarchy also increased to 60% (compared to 53% in 2023).
Since 2023, some members of the royal family have also improved among Canadians, the popularity of King Charles III going from 37% to 41% and Prince William and Catherine going to 56% (52%) and 51% (compared to 47%).
The approval ratings of other members of the royal family have blocked or lowered.
Camilla, Queen Consort, saw her favorite decrease by one point, just like Prince Harry, while Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, fell by two points.
Older Canadians continue to show greater support for the royal family, highlighting a persistent generational fracture.
Despite these earnings, the monarchy is still faced with challenges to obtain wide support, especially among young Canadians.
What matters most to Canadians
While Parliament is preparing to open after the April elections – who saw the Liberals return with a minority and Prime Minister Mark Carney at the helm – most Canadians seem satisfied with the idea of a liberal minority government.
But this optimism is not uniformly shared across the country.
The Albertans were the least likely to be satisfied with the electoral result, according to the survey.
Only 41% expressed any level of satisfaction, while 59% said they would be unhappy with a liberal minority – 37% of them “not at all satisfied”.
This frustration seems to reflect a broader feeling of Western alienationEcho by leaders like the Prime Minister of Alberta Danielle Smith.
On the other hand, support for a liberal minority was much stronger in Atlantic Canada and Quebec, where 58 and 57% of respondents said they were satisfied with the result.
The survey also gave an instantaneous what the Canadians want the liberal government to concentrate.
At the top of the list: the protection of interests of Canada (27%), closely followed by affordability and the cost of living (26%).
20% additional said that the economy in general should be the main objective, while 11% highlighted pipelines and other resource infrastructure. Only three percent have listed health care as a top priority.
These priorities varied according to the province, revealed the survey.
In Ontario, affordability is at the top of the list, with 29% of respondents saying that this should be the main objective of the government. In Quebec, 30% of respondents said that Canada’s interest protection was the top priority. Support for the approval of pipelines and other resource infrastructure was lower in all 11%, but increased to 27% in Alberta.
For the monarchy survey, these are some of the conclusions of an IPSOS survey carried out between May 16 and 18, 2025, on behalf of Global News. For this survey, a sample of 1,000 Canadians aged 18 and over was interviewed online. Quotas and weighting have been used to ensure that the composition of the sample reflects that of the Canadian population according to the census parameters. The accuracy of Ipsos online surveys is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the survey is precise at ± 3.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, that all 18 -year -old Canadians had been interviewed. The credibility interval will be wider among the sub-assemblies of the population. All sample surveys and surveys can be subject to other sources of error, including, but without limiting itself, a coverage error and a measurement error.
For the survey of government priorities, these are some of the conclusions of an exclusive survey of the IPSOS elections for the world news on April 28. For this survey, a sample of 10,436 Canadian voters aged 18 and over was interviewed online via the Ipsos I-Say panel. The data has been weighted to reflect the result of the elections by region according to the results of the Canada elections. The accuracy of Ipsos online surveys is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the survey is considered precise at ± 1.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, if all Canadian voters had been interviewed. The credibility interval will be wider among the sub-assemblies of the population. All samples surveys and surveys can be subject to other sources of error, including, but without limiting itself, the coverage error and the measurement error.
– With the Sean Previl and Mercedes Stephenson files of Global News