[LINK] "Justin Trudeau's approval ratings remain high, even among New Democrats"

[rfmcdonald]

Éric Grenier's CBC News report on the popularity of Justin Trudeau augurs ill for the NDP.

Two new polls suggest that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to enjoy high approval ratings in the early days of his government, that Canadians are split and largely undecided on the performance of interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose and that Tom Mulcair is not much more popular among his party's own supporters than Trudeau is.

The polls were conducted by Forum Research for the Toronto Star and EKOS Research for iPolitics.

They show Trudeau having an approval rating of 57 and 64 per cent, respectively, with disapproval standing at 30 and 27 per cent. Trudeau's approval ratings were particularly good in Atlantic Canada, British Columbia and Quebec, while Canadians in the Prairies and Alberta had a more mixed view of the Liberal leader.

This is an improvement over where he stood in the final days of the 2015 federal election campaign, with his approval rating up about eight points and his disapproval rating down about seven points in Forum's polling.

Not surprisingly, Trudeau has a sky-high approval rating among Liberal voters. Forum suggests that 90 per cent of Liberals approve of Trudeau's performance, with just 3 per cent disapproving. According to EKOS, his approval rating among Liberals stands at 98 per cent.

Neither Ambrose nor Mulcair boast anything close to those numbers among their party's own supporters.