BC Premier David Eby and Quebec’s François Legault are seeing their approval ratings decline with Eby down 12  points in six months and Legault reaching a new low of 22 per cent approval as he faces an election next year.

By PD Raj – Senior Reporter DESIBUZZCanada

VICTORIA – BC Premier David Eby and Quebec’s François Legault are seeing their approval ratings decline with Eby down 12  points in six months and Legault reaching a new low of 22 per cent approval as he faces an election next year.

Once the most popular premier in the country, Quebec’s François Legault is now far and away the most unpopular.

New poll from Angus Reid Institute finds one-in-five (22%) in Quebec approve of Legault, while more than three times as many (72%) do not. This marks the lowest approval of Legault since he first took office in 2018, and a remarkable reversal of fortunes for a leader who secured back-to-back majorities in 2018 and 2022. He now stares down “disastrous defeat”.

The ongoing public inquiry into the SAAQclic $500-million overspend has evidently not done Legault any favours, as he’s been skewered for admitting ignorance to the project’s ballooning budget.

Legault and his Coalition Avenir Quebec have 13 months to right the ship before the province’s scheduled election.

On the country’s west coast, another significant decline has been unfolding. British Columbia’s David Eby has seen his approval has dropped for the second consecutive quarter (41%, down five points from June and 12 from March) to the lowest rating he’s received since he’s been in office. 

This, as his government reckons with a strike of the BC General Employees union, a growing government deficit, and the fallout from recent court decisions on Indigenous land rights. Unlike Legault, however, Eby’s BC NDP won re-election less than one year ago. He recently took to mimicking rightwing call to ban the temporary foreign workers program

The country’s next provincial election will feature one of its most recent additions to the ranks of premier, Newfoundland and Labrador’ John Hogan. After being sworn into the job in May, Hogan and his governing Liberal Party face an election in October. Half (51%) approve of his performance so far, a 12-point increase from last quarter when many were reserving judgement.Link to the poll here: www.angusreid.org/