Almost 60 per cent of Canadians don’t trust promises made by politicians before an election: poll

According to the poll’s findings, distrust in politicians’ pre-election promises is stronger among supporters of the major opposition parties and residents of Alberta and the East Coast.

In a new national Forum Research poll, only 40 per cent of respondents said they trust pre-election promises, with a meagre three per cent saying they have a lot of trust in them. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

February 2, 2018

Nearly two-thirds of Canadians say they have no faith in promises from political leaders made in the run-up to an election, though opinion varies sharply along party lines, with 60 per cent of federal Liberal supporters voicing trust in pre-vote pledges, according to a...

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