Declining approval ratings for Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government have the Opposition Conservatives leading in popular support in a nationwide poll for the second time in as many weeks.
Carney’s approval rating is down six points to 51 percent, while Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives top the governing Liberals by 2 percent in voter intentions, according to a newly released survey from Angus Reid. Forty percent of Canadians polled said they would vote Tory compared to 38 percent who would cast a ballot for the Liberals.
It is the second poll in the past two weeks that has given Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives an edge over Carney’s Liberals. An Aug. 24 poll from Abacus Data found that 41 percent would vote Tory and 39 percent would choose Liberal….