Many Canadians consider their southern neighbor “unfriendly” amid tensions over President Trump's trade policies, according to a new survey.
In the YouGov survey, 44 percent of respondents said the U.S. is “unfriendly” when asked if they see the country as “an ally or an enemy of Canada.” Fifteen percent in the poll said the U.S. is an “ally,” 10 percent called it “friendly,” 20 percent called it an “enemy” and 11 percent said they were “not sure.”
Tensions between long-time allies U.S. and Canada have risen in recent months amid Trump's upset of the global trade order.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said last week that negotiations with Trump on the U.S.-Canada economic and security relationships will start after the Canadian federal election later this month.
“As President Trump and I have agreed, the U.S. President and the Canadian Prime Minister will commence negotiations on a new economic and security relationship immediately following the Federal election,” Carney said on the social platform X.
The YouGov survey also found that 61 percent of respondents said they had started to boycott American companies. Thirty-two percent said they had not started any form of boycotting, and 7 percent said they were “not sure.”
A survey released late last month found 17 percent of U.S. adults backing Canada becoming the U.S.’s 51st state, an idea Trump has raised multiple times in recent months.
The YouGov survey took place from March 27 to April 2, featuring 993 people and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.