76% of Canadians could vote for Donald Trump-like candidate

[Gone_Fishin]

Canadians would consider voting for Donald Trump-like candidate: Ipsos poll

Head By Andrew Russell
National Online Journalist, Breaking News Global News

As the volatile U.S. presidential campaign comes to a close, many Canadians have spent the last year watching – and lamenting on social media – the controversial candidacy of Donald Trump.

UPDATE: Donald J. Trump was elected 45th president of the United States after defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton

And while American media outlets have described Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “anti-Trump” a new Ipsos poll, conducted exclusively for Global News, found many Canadians would consider voting for a candidate who espouses policies similar to that of the GOP nominee.


The new polling found that 76 per cent of respondents say they’d be “likely to consider” voting for a Canadian candidate with a platform similar to Donald Trump’s that focuses on stricter immigration controls, reviewing trade agreements like NAFTA, shifting spending on international development to domestic priorities, and being “tough on crime.”

Darrell Bricker, CEO at Ipsos, says there is a difference between Trump’s policy ideas and the candidate, who has faced a series of ongoing scandals including making obscene comments about women and several allegations of sexual assault.

“There is Trump the person and then there is Trump and what he is talking about,” Bricker said. “Some of the ideas he is fighting for have more salience than I think people believe.”

http://globalnews.ca/news/3051240/canad ... date-poll/

[Rosemary1]

here we go again with misleading catch headline.
Poll was on 1007 people. Second responders did not vote for a 'Donald Trump-like candidate' (which infers a certain type of character and behaviour he represents) but some of the policy ideas. They are two separate things as Bricker himself noted.

[Bsuds]

100% in this house wouldn't vote for him or anyone who thought like him!

[Poindexter]

If deficits get out of control I could easily see a backlash to the liberal ideology that would make a Leary type candidate very electable.

[django]

If deficits get out of control I could easily see a backlash to the liberal ideology that would make a Leary type candidate very electable.

O'Leary

[Queen K]

Let's just say "leery" and get it over with.

[Deean]

...focuses on stricter immigration controls, reviewing trade agreements like NAFTA, shifting spending on international development to domestic priorities, and being “tough on crime.”

I would vote for this.

[Gilchy]

I would vote for this.

Everyone would. But to then claim that means they would support a Trump-like candidate" is a stretch.

[Barney Google]

I do not consider O'Leary anything like Trump and even more so,

Trump is no where near the same type of person O'Leary is.

[Poindexter]

I do not consider O'Leary anything like Trump and even more so,

Trump is no where near the same type of person O'Leary is.

I don't think he is either but I think we could see someone who's not part of the polical establishment, an entrepreneur and a TV personality. On the surface the similarities are there but didn't mean to imply he's got the same ideology.

Here's O'Leary's response to the comparison of him and Trump.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/c ... c-american

[maryjane48]

If deficits get out of control I could easily see a backlash to the liberal ideology that would make a Leary type candidate very electable.

leary isnt best buddys with right . its lietch that loves good hangin