Canadians Are Split on Trudeau's Pipeline Purchase, Poll Shows
- Majority back pipeline, many skeptical of government ownership
- Vote-rich Ontario and Quebec see purchase as wrong decision
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Canadians increasingly back the Trans Mountain pipeline but are far less supportive of Justin Trudeau’s decision to buy it.
A poll published Tuesday by the Angus Reid Institute found Canadians are evenly split -- 37 percent say Trudeau made the right decision, 37 percent say the wrong decision and the rest were undecided. It’s a stark difference from the popularity of the pipeline expansion itself: 57 percent of Canadians support it while 26 percent oppose, the poll found. That gap has steadily widened in the firm’s polling.