Jack Jedwab
Executive Director
Association for Canadian Studies
December 2010

One poll was conducted amongst Canadians by the firm
Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies
on the week ending 2010-09-07, asking respondents
across Canada if they ''strongly agree", "somewhat agree",
"somewhat disagree" or "strongly disagree'' on the following
question “Overall how much trust and confidence do you
have in the following to do a good job?”
Armed Forces/Military
Federal Government (in Canada and the United States)
and National Government (in Germany and Spain)

This report presents the findings in Canada of the survey
conducted among a sample of an average of 1,707 adults
comprising 825 men and 882 women 18 years of age and
older and is a demographically representative national
sample.

In addition, the ACS contracted reputable polling
companies in the United States, Spain and Germany to run
the same battery of questions with a similar,
representative sample size (of 1000 persons) in order to
run cross-national comparisons on the issue at hand.
Overall how much trust
and confidence do you
have in the following to
do a good job?
Armed Forces
Federal
Government/National
Government
Canada
75.7
54.1
United States
80.7
41.5
Germany
50.1
27.2
Spain
52.4
29.3
Great Deal and Fair
Amount %
Overall how
much trust and
confidence do
you have in
the following
to do a good
job?
USA
Great Deal
and Fair
Amount
Armed Forces
Federal
Government
51.3
18-24
79.6
58.3
77.7
56.7
25-34
69.1
42.8
45-54
80.7
54.1
35-44
79.0
38.0
55-64
82.6
60.2
45-54
82.8
35.4
65-74
84.2
61.0
55-64
85.7
43.6
65 and older
Male
77.6
54.7
91.6
37.5
Male
Female
74.1
53.2
82.6
43.4
Female
79.0
39.8
Overall how
much trust and
confidence do
you have in the
following to do
a good job?
Canada
Great Deal and
Fair Amount
Armed Forces
18-24
51.2
47.8%
25-34
71.8
35-44
Federal
Government
Canada
Great Deal
and Fair
Amount
Armed Forces
USA
Federal
Government
Great Deal
and Fair
Amount
Armed Forces
Federal
Government
Total
80.7
41.5
NonImmigrants
81.0
40.2
Immigrants
78.0
58.9
53.9
White
83.1
38.4
Black or
African
American
73.1
60.2
Hispanic
71.2
50.0
Total
75.7
54.1
NonImmigrants
77.5
53.5
Immigrants
67.5
French
71.7
49.2
English
80.3
52.7
Allophone
67.3
57.5