Majority of Canadians don’t see U.S. as friend, study finds

OTTAWA—New research suggests that a minority of Canadians now consider the United States to be the country’s friend, except for Conservative party supporters, more than half of whom still view the U.S. as Canada’s friend.

Data from the Environics Institute shared exclusively with the Star shows that 36 per cent of Canadians currently view the United States as a friend, compared to 60 per cent at the end of 2020 and 89 per cent in 2013, and that 27 per cent of Canadians presently view the U.S. as an enemy, a number that stood at 11 per cent in 2020 and as low as one per cent in 2013.

But when the results were broken down by federal voting intention, the research institute found that 55 per cent of Conservative party supporters still considered the U.S. a friend to Canada — compared to 26