Report(PDF).
- 41% of Canadians consider the United States an enemy country, compared with 22% who consider it an ally and 22% a neutral country. The share saying “enemy” has risen 15 points since June 2025.
- 64% say their impression of the United States would change if Donald Trump were no longer president, while 21% say it would not.
- 85% would not like Canada to become the 51st U.S. state, while 9% would.
- 63% expect the new tariffs to have a major or moderate impact on their personal financial situation, while 87% expect at least some impact.
- 74% agree with the federal government’s decision to impose new tariffs on certain U.S. products. Among respondents asked the tariff questions, 78% expect the tariffs to increase prices for Canadian consumers, yet 66% would still agree with imposing them even if some prices increase.
What’s wrong with 59% of Canadians?
I’ve been saying it’s only a matter of time before the world begins to treat the US like a rogue state, a threat.
It seems to me that number is strangely low. I wonder what their sample group was.
Canadians tend not to mince words when using language like ”enemy”. We’ll throw all sorts of sarcastic insults out, but stating outright that someone is an enemy is no joke. Anyone who doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand Canadians.
I understand Canadians pretty well and I’m really not sure what this supposed to be referencing. Few years ago, a poll found that 60% of Canadians viewed China as a “threat” or an “enemy” (40% and 22% respectively; https://angusreid.org/canada-the-u-s-and-china-how-canadians-rate-friends-foes-and-global-trust/). In 2016, 65% viewed China as a threat due to the coverage of its military buildup, just under half expecting a military conflict with it within the next ten years. (https://www.asiapacific.ca/sites/default/files/filefield/apf_canada_2016_nop_final.pdf)
Would you like to hear how Canadians viewed Palestinians not three years ago? Israel? 75% viewed Hamas as a terrorist organization and over half stated their sympathies rested with “both sides” (despite most agreeing that Israel was too "heavy handed’). (https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023.11.07_Israel_Gaza.pdf) What’s interesting about this is that this same survey showed that, despite most Canadians recognizing it as a genocide by 2025, 2023 was markedly more mild on Israel than similar surveys from 2020 and 2017 following Israeli escalations that garnered discourses on sanctions as responses to the Israeli genocide campaign. So, there is evidence to suggest that many Canadians became more sympathetic toward Israel once they escalated to a full-scale, total war campaign in Gaza and it wasn’t until that last two years very publicly that most even considered it a genocide (https://www.cjpme.org/pp_47; https://www.ijvcanada.org/2017-israel-palestine-bds-survey/; https://www.ijvcanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Survey-2020-Israel-Palestine-2020-06-16-Final.pdf).
I’m not sure where many Canadians get this impression that Canadians are some badass, principled people, but their perceptions are about as flexible and contingent on current conditions as any other group of people. It isn’t like Canadians view any nations in Latin America as “enemies,” and yet they allow their state to support and facilitate violence conducted by Canadian mining corporations on them with impunity (https://justice-project.org/the-canada-brand-violence-and-canadian-mining-companies-in-latin-america/). So, I’m not really sure what it even means for Canadians to view any other state as an “enemy,” when their condemnation, sympathy, or apathy seems to have little to no conviction and often very little bearing on how they allow their government to respond to those states; let alone with their longtime economic partner and imperialist co-conspirator, the US.
However, I do know that these narratives have become far more common in the two years since Trump was reelected, and Canadians finally found themselves marginally effected by US imperialism.
It’s a poll. The language in polls doesn’t need to reflect exactly what’s happening in polled minds.
You need to take this with measure of context, it’s not that deep.
what exactly did you think the point above was?
As a U.S. citizen, those numbers seem low to me.
You guys should really be much closer to unanimous for this.
Also, President Pedo leaving office doesn’t change anything unless his departure transitions directly into a long prison sentence.
We thought 2016 taught the Zoomers why we all hate you guys but apparently it didn’t.
Canada is only somewhat smarter than us. If it weren’t for extenuating circumstances they were ready to elect their own cadre of manlet fascists until about 2 months before the election. Another display of dump’s malicious stupidity.
So I’m not surprised it’s only 41% even though our head of state literally threatened their sovereignty and started open economic warfare with them and our Congress just lets him do it. Canada has a lot of stupid people, just not as many as we do.
Canada is only somewhat smarter than us.
I understand what you’re saying, but the numbers don’t support this. There are far right conservatives in every country. Finding them in Canada is just statistically expected.
I’m saying Canada is smarter than the US because they were able to abort at the last minute. I don’t think that kind of swing is possible in the US anymore. You wouldn’t see a huge swing like that, it would just be a few percentage points.
I hate to agree with you but you’re right. We have maple maga here. My nephew is one. We need to be so careful
We haven’t done anything to combat their rise, so I’m not so optimistic.
This is a global problem. The left has been apathetic for decades. We need to turn it around, stop making demands, stop apologizing and start taking control.
My sister is turning into one and there’s nothing stopping it because her husband works in the rigs and is in an echo chamber of bs lies but telling her that just makes her double down and think she’s so much smarter because she’s going to university and has her own successful small business.
We have dumb people living here too.
Trump no longer being president changes nothing. His enablers in congress, the supreme court, his administration, the entire GOP and a significant portion of the electorate tell me nothing significant changes.
The US has lost its fucking mind. There is no going back.
The polling missed an important question: how many Americans see the US as an enemy state?
As a citizen, I see this America as an enemy. I am now hoping for a 2nd American Civil War - to divide the good from the bad, and allow our respective cultures go our separate ways…or to crush the life out of the Dogey Confederate serpent. The midterms will decide whether there is peace or war among us.
Either way, I want to live in a good and intelligent society, not one steeped in moronic evil.
The US was founded as a oligarchy, only white rich males had any say. They started with genocide and land theft, grew through slavery and imperialism, and tRump has just dropped the mask they have been hiding behind for 250 years. Good to see people waking up to what that country really is, I hope they don’t go back to sleep when he is gone.
💯💯💯
I think the great awakening is going to happen soon. But it will be too late.
yeah it doesn’t matter who they elect anymore. Americans are dead to me. How can you trust those idiots when they constantly go back to the right-wing well and then say “sorry about that” after 4 to 8 years only to pull the same shit another 4 or 8 years later.
fuck em. shit hole country full of nazis.
The US is not the enemy! He still loves me! He, he just loses his temper sometimes when I, when I upset him. That’s all.
I hated the USA since the Iraq war
The share saying “enemy” has risen 15 points since June 2025.
That’s crazy, what made the number drop so low?
Only their gov, judiciary, corporations, some of their unique domestic religious entities, their wealth class, their consultant class, their gun/death cults and about 30-70% of their imperialist society.
I’m ok with the rest of them…
Creating a rift and tensions appears to be what MAGA wants. I know there are many in the US who do not want this.
Ok, but the Americans who dont want this need to do something about it. Canadians are reacting rationally to US actions. Whether that makes MAGAts happy or sad is irrelevant. Canada needs to do what is best for Canadians, and refusing to accomodate bullying behaviour is the least worst choice.
This upcoming November will be the first opportunity Americans will have had to do anything about it since this administration took power. And this administration is so afraid that Americans will put a stop to what’s happening that they’re pulling an unprecedented amount of levers to try and interfere in the election. In several cases illegally.
That’s a very interesting statement. Canadians have historically been quite supportive of Americans who go overseas and attack “threatening” nations, why would their support stop at the US itself when Americans clearly need their help?
So you’re advocating for a Canadian invasion of the US ? That’s a very “interesting” position.
Right, wouldn’t that be crazy? So crazy in fact, doesn’t it make you wonder how it was so safe for Canada to invade all those other countries it did with the US, hm?
I’m using it to point out that none of the fuckers who went along with all their genocides are gonna offer to go now. When Canada benefitted from their brutality, there wasn’t any call for Americans to overthrow their government. I’m advocating for your dumb ass to think about what it says about Canadians that this was the line, and why that line being crossed happens to also be when Canadians feel no responsibility whatsoever to help end it despite their decades of enthusiastic participation in US imperialism.
Yep.
They’ve had an entire 2 protests in 10 months. They’re doing soooo much!! How can you expect them to do more? /s
Tens of thousands of protests in the last 10 months*
They are making memes on the internet. That will change everything.
In fairness with the entire media controlled by the fash there could well be activity that we dont hear about
It’s what Russia wants.
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