Urban and rural Canada aren’t so divided on key issues facing the country, leading pollster says

Fewer than one in five Canadians live in rural areas and these populations are growing more slowly than in urban centres, says chief statistician Anil Arora. Between 2016-2021, the urban population grew almost 16 times faster than rural Canada's.

Canada's chief statistician Anil Arora, left, and Abacus Data's CEO David Coletto. Arora says 'our cities are changing dynamically and at a pace that’s pretty amazing, becoming portals to a massive global economy.' Photograph courtesy of Fred Chartrand, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

June 8, 2023

In Canada, it's rare to talk about electoral outcomes without touching on urban, rural, and suburban divides amongst voters. But a leading pollster and a former provincial premier say the political and policy differences between urban and rural Canadians may be over-exaggera...

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