A new study reports that a majority of Canadians are happy with the state of their democracy, unlike their neighbors to the south.
A new poll from the Pew Research Center found that 66 percent of respondents in Canada are satisfied with how democracy works, while 33 percent say the opposite.
Only Singapore, Sweden and New Zealand scored higher on the satisfaction scale.
On the other end of the spectrum, 58% of American participants were dissatisfied, with only Japan, Spain, Italy and Greece reporting higher levels of humiliation.
The Canadian portion of the survey was conducted by telephone between March 15 and May 3 with 1,011 respondents.
It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
“There are six countries – Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand – where the will to reform is relatively weak,” Pew said in a press release.
“Less than half of respondents in six countries want meaningful reforms to their political, economic or health systems. Satisfaction with democracy is also very high in these countries.
The gap between Canada and the United States is enormous in terms of the political systems of each country.
In the United States, 85 percent of survey respondents said their system of government needed major changes or improvements, compared to just 47 percent in Canada.
In healthcare, 76% of US participants called for a similar drastic change, with just 43% of Canadians feeling the same.
46 percent said they wanted to reform or change Canada’s economic system, compared to 66 percent of Americans polled.
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