WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger has seen a massive downturn in his approval rating over the last three months, the latest quarterly survey from Angus Reid Global shows.
Selinger has the approval of just 17 per cent of respondents to the survey, or fewer than one in five people — the lowest approval rating among Canadian premiers.
The latest numbers almost halve his approval rating in September, when 30 per cent of those polled said they approve of his performance as provincial leader.
This is a far cry from where Selinger was sitting back in August 2012 when he had the approval of nearly half (48 per cent) of Manitoba adults.
It’s been a tough year for the premier, whose cabinet took a hit when five high-profile MLAs resigned.
His leadership has continually been called into question and there continues to be lingering discontent with the way an increase to the province’s sales tax was rolled out.
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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall continues to be the most popular in Canada, with an approval rating of 65 per cent.
More than 6,400 Canadians were surveyed between Dec. 4 and 13 as part of an online panel. The pollster considers the results accurate within plus or minus 1.2 per cent. There were 800 Manitobans polled and the margin of error for results in this province is plus or minus 3.5 per cent, 19 times out of 20, according to Angus Reid.
However, the polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample, and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.
— With files from the Canadian Press
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