BC’s Premier has topped the charts once more, this time for an overall approval rating across the country, a recent poll reports.
According to the Angus Reid Institute, the latest Premiers’ Performance survey saw John Horgan score an approval rating of 66 per cent.
The premier has seen high ratings throughout the majority of the pandemic thus far, and is up two points from the previous poll, which was released in December 2020.
Angus Reid’s latest poll sees two-thirds of British Columbians approving of the job Horgan’s been doing, holding the top spot this quarter versus the rest of the country’s provincial leaders.
Horgan’s first place designation comes despite the recent announcement that the now $16-billion Site C hydroelectric dam would be completed, and with last week’s news announcing details for the province’s mass immunization also hot off the presses.
The immunization strategy made waves across the country for extending the time between first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine to four months.
Though there was initially some negative feedback over the mass immunization plan, other provinces announced they’d follow suit in adopting the same four-month spacing.
Many had something to say about the introduction of Monday’s vaccination booking hotline, after it was inundated with an influx of calls on opening day, but it’s still too soon to say if this will have an impact on the level to which British Columbians approve of their premier.
On the other side, Nova Scotia’s Iain Rankin scored the lowest of any premier, clocking in at 31 per cent.
Angus Reid does say that this number may be misleading, as the province is still trying to figure out their brand-new premier.
“While he appears to be the least approved-of premier in the country, this is a function of fully half the province (51%) as yet unable to render an opinion on the job he’s doing,” says the organization.
The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey from February 26th to March 3rd, 2021 among a representative randomized sample of 5,004 Canadian adults who are members of Angus Reid Forum. For comparison purposes only, a probability sample of this size would carry a margin of error of +/- 1.4 percentage points, 19 times out of
20. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding.
