Environmental problems have reduced the list of Canadian concerns in this federal election compared to the last campaign, according to Vote Compass data.
When asked “what problem is the most important for you in this choice?” The respondents said more frequently than the relationships of Canada-United States were their main concern.
The environmental problems did not break the first five.
“The panorama of the problem is very different from the 2021 elections, when the environment was the main concern for most Canadians,” according to the analysis of votes.
The findings are based on more than 161,000 people who participated in the vote survey of the compass from March 25 to April 3.
In 2021, 24 percent appointed the environment as its most important theme. But in this campaign, the environment is eighth in the list, in approximately five percent.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods and annexation threats have dominated much of the 2025 electoral campaign, with 29 percent of respondents who identify the issue of Canada-United States as their main concern.
Liberal voters are specially concerned about relations with the US, with 46 percent who chose it as their most important theme.
For conservative voters, the economy is the main concern, and 36 percent the choice as their key theme.
The economic problems were the following on the list, identified as a main concern for 24 percent of the general population. The cost of living, social justice and medical care complete the first five.
The proportion of Canadians who cite immigration as their main concern is up to four percent in 2025 of one percent in 2021, according to Vote Compass.
Less people said that medical care was their most important issue (up to six percent of 12 percent).
Vote Compass is an initiative of Vox Pop Labs, an independent and non -partisan social company founded and operated by academics. The application examines users about their political views and then calculates their alignment with the parties and candidates that run for the elections.
On Friday, 128 municipal politicians wrote an open letter to the five main leaders of the Federal Party who requested action on climate change “because it is later too late.”
The group wants the next federal government to build a national electricity grid that includes north, advance with a high -speed rail network, make houses and buildings more energy efficient, build two million “green households” that are not market, and finance a “national resistance, response and recovery strategy.”
Unlike online opinion surveys, surveyed to vote on a compass are not preselected. However, similar to many public opinion surveys, the data is a sample of online non -probability that has been weighted to approximate a demographically representative sample. The data of the voting compass have been weighted by gender, age, education, region, the language spoken in the home and partisanship (previous federal vote) to ensure that the composition of the sample reflects that of the eligible population by vote of Canada according to the data of the census and the electoral data. All results are subject to uncertainty (or error). Because the vote data of the compass is derived from a sample of non -probability, Vox Pop Labs does not have a traditional margin. Instead, it reports an estimate of modeled error that is intended to approximate a margin of sampling error, in this case of +/- 0.5%.
