Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have dragged Canadians’ view of the United States to its lowest level in nearly 20 years, a new poll suggests.The Pew Research Center report released Tuesday finds a favourable view of the U.S.
among only 35 per cent of Canadians surveyed, the lowest level recorded since Pew began polling north of the Canada-U.S. border in 2002.“Like all countries surveyed this year, Canada’s favourable rating of the U.S.
dropped sharply in 2017 as confidence in the U.S. president plummeted,” the centre said in a release.“In the more than three years since Trump first took office, views have slowly shifted, but 2020 sees the lowest ratings for the U.S.