With Canada’s future relations with the United States that dominates the federal electoral campaign so far, a new survey brings light to which Canadians are best thinking about managing the country’s resources – one of the pillars of our economic relations with the Americans.
When asked which party and which chief would do the best job to manage Canada’s energy and resources, the majority of respondents to the Ipsos Poll, ordered exclusively for Global News, chose the federal liberals and their chief Mark Carney, against the Conservatives and their chief Pierre Hairyvre.
Overall, 69% of those questioned declared that Canada should “act faster on the development opportunities for energy and resources in light of the dispute with the United States” – including 26% of respondents who agreed that we must “repel the obstacles of the track” and 43% who have agreed that we must move faster but “with a certain prudence” and 43% Quickly but “with a certain caution”.
A new IPSOS survey, ordered exclusively for Global News shows that 69% of Canadians who replied have said that Canada must “act faster on the development opportunities for energy projects and resources in the dispute with the United States”
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When he was asked which leader and what party would do the best work to manage Canada’s energy and resources to “create jobs and develop the economy”, as well as to ensure that we do so in “respectful environment and sustainable way”, the majority of respondents chose Mark Carney and the federal Liberals of Hairy Stone and Conservatives. (38% for liberals against 25% for preservatives)
A new IPSOS survey, ordered exclusively for Global News, shows that a majority of respondents said that federal liberals would do the best job to manage Canada’s energy and resources to “create jobs and develop the economy”, as well as to ensure that we do so in “respectful and sustainable environment”.
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“It should not be surprising that the Liberals direct environmental issues related to the environment,” said Kyle Braid, the main vice-president of public affairs of Ipsos. “What could be surprising for some, especially for the conservatives, is that the liberals actually lead to the energy file to manage it for the creation of jobs and the growth of the economy.
“It’s surprising because it’s a problem of bread and conservative butter – it’s something they’ve been talking about for years,” added Braid. “Canadians seem to want to see the growth of these industries, but at this stage, Canadians seem to be more approval from the balanced approach to the liberals than to the aggressive approach to the curators of the conservatives.”
Broken Down Further, by Region and Demographics, Carney and the Liberals Poll Ahead of Hairy and the Conservatives in All Categories – With the Exception of Alberta, Where More Loisting Think the Conservatives Would Do A Better Job at Balancing Economic Opportunities and Environmental concerns, (41 per cent for the conservative versus One hundred for the Liberals)
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However, the spread of 4 percentage points is not as wide as a difference as the braid provided.
“One of the surprises here is that even in Alberta, while the conservatives are considered better to deal with these problems than the liberals, the gap is only 10 points. I think that, historically, it would be a gap that looks more like 20, 30 or 40 points,” said Braid.
“So something has changed here for the Liberals as a whole, and it was transported in the energy file.”
Although energy problems may have made the headlines since the election of Donald Trump and his complaints concerning the balance of American exchanges with Canada, only four percent of Canadians have said that energy is one of the main problems for them in the federal electoral campaign – so “it is not yet a voting decision maker,” said Braid.
However, he thinks that the Conservatives will have the opportunity to change this in the next federal debates.
“The conservatives need something to return to this campaign. Clearly in their advertising and their speeches, they are trying to differentiate themselves from the liberals. This has not worked so far,” added Braid.
“However, there is a huge opportunity for the future debates of the leaders where these questions that I expect will be in the foreground and represent a real opportunity for the conservatives to differentiate themselves from the liberals.”
These are some of the conclusions of an Ipsos survey carried out between April 1 and the 3rd 2025, in the name of Global News. For this survey, a sample of n = 1,000 Canadians aged 18 and over was interviewed online, via the Ipsos I-Say panel and non-panel sources, and respondents obtain nominal incitement for their participation. Quotas and weighting were used to balance demographic data to ensure that the composition of the sample reflects that of the adult population according to census data and to provide results to approximate the universe of the sample. The accuracy of IPSOS surveys which include the non-probability sampling is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the survey is precise at ± 3.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, if all 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. Ipsos complies with the disclosure standards established by the CRIC, found here: https://canadianresearchinsightscil.ca/standards/
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