Next federal election a referendum on Trudeau’s management of COVID-19, say pollsters, ‘a crisis like no other’

Veteran pollster Frank Graves says the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to the 'cusp of another great transformation’ but it’s unknown what changes it will create until the crisis is over.

The next federal election will be a referendum on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured April 14, 2020, at his daily press conference outside Rideau Cottage, and his minority government handled the COVID-19 pandemic, say veteran pollsters. Pollster Nik Nanos says the decision on when to end the lockdown will be a tough situation for the federal government and provincial governments, but they will need to work together in order to get it right. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 20, 2020

With the country deep in the throes of a deadly global pandemic, veteran pollsters are predicting that the next federal election will be a referendum on how Justin Trudeau's minority government managed COVID-19 and its impact on Canadians after this global crisis is over. “We won't know until the...

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