Nearly Four in Ten (36%) Give the Liberal Government a Failing Grade on Dealing with Cost of Living

September 25th, 2025, marks Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 150th day in office, and a new Ipsos poll finds that although Canadians give the Liberal government a passing grade on its progress in building trading relationships with countries other than the US and removing inter-provincial trade barriers, the government is seen to perform poorly on dealing with Canada’s housing affordability crisis and lowering the cost of living, with three in ten to nearly four in ten giving the government an F grade on these two items, respectively.

Canadians are split on some of the major decisions Mark Carney has made to date. On the positive side, 59% disagree that the plan to invest in large-scale national projects is a poor use of money, a slim majority (55%) agree that he has done a good job standing up to President Trump and 53% disagree that investing in defense is a poor use of taxpayer money. On the more negative side, only a minority agree that the Liberal government has done a good job on immigration (47%). Moreover, only 43% have seen progress on interprovincial trade. Similarly, 66% agree that they’re not confident that Carney’s budget cuts will be enough to improve Canada’s economic situation.

These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between September 5 and 8, 2025, on behalf of Global News. For this survey, a sample of 1,001 Canadians aged 18+ was interviewed online. Quotas and weighting were employed to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the Canadian population according to census parameters. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Canadians aged 18+ been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error.

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Darrell Bricker, PhD
CEO, Ipsos Global Public Affairs
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