David Coletto

That's a reality for Canadians.

Abacus Data CEO and pollster David Coletto recently surveyed Canadians about the upcoming budget.

He says Canadians' patience won't last forever.

The public is still asking themselves, how long is it going to take before we start to see the things that have been happening over the last two years start to bear fruit? The budget will also have to demonstrate that progress is being made.

He's a big talker, but where are the actual results?

Abacus Data CEO and pollster David Coletto recently surveyed Canadians about the upcoming budget.

He says Canadians' patience won't last forever.

The public is still asking themselves and wondering how long is it going to take before we start to see the things that have been happening over the last two years start to bear fruit.

What to make of the negotiations between Canada and the EU on associate member or whatever one's calling it? And what, most importantly, are Canadians thinking about it? Those are precisely the questions we'll aim to cover in today's episode of Hub Politics.

As always, I'm grateful to be joined by co-founder and principal at Oyster Group, Amanda Galbraith, and founder and chair at Abacus Data, David Coletto.

David and Amanda, great to talk to you.

Good to see you both.

They're still open.

six minutes to go and presumably if there's still people in line to vote then those people have a you know have a right to vote so some people will vote a little bit later than 8 p.m and that's okay you should have gone earlier there was nobody when i went to vote earlier it was super smooth and very cool and i had my 18 year old with me and you know first time voting and it was a great experience and you know yay i've got another kid launched into adulthood so i'm pleased with that But the thing that I wanted to say, Evan, and I see that you've disappeared, but I think you'll reappear, is that David Coletto, who's the pollster behind Abacus Data, who has done a great deal of work, and he was publicly supporting his friend Mark Sutcliffe in his re-election bid, did say something at the very beginning of the campaign.

I can't remember exactly when it was, around April or May.

And I'm paraphrasing him because I don't have his exact quotes.

Not that he's terrible, it just could be better.

And...

Going back to David Coletto's earlier point in the campaign, when you're in a situation where you want to have safety, you want to have security, you want to have stability because you're worried about the chaos in the world, then it makes sense to go with the guy you're like, eh, could be a lot better, but could also be a lot worse.

There's Evan.

Are you kidding me? And we journalists love talking about them and splashing these people's faces on the paper.

What I'm seeing is, I'm interested in David Coletto, who's showing polling that certain Torontonians are saying, hey, I think Chow is nice, I like her as a person, but I don't think she has a record.

And that's seen in the fact that the Toronto Star, for God's sakes, Greg, could not endorse a candidate over the last few days.

could not bring themselves to put their name behind the progressive candidate in this race.

Yeah, I've seen similar things being done by other pollsters.

David Coletto comes to mind on it.

I think he generally defines his terms a little clearer.

Yeah, usually you want to link to it, but the rest are kind of clear.

Yeah, some of the pollsters seem to have nailed this.

Abacus, David Coletto and his group have some of their numbers that they released in the days leading up to the referendum are almost bang on, even in terms of the breakdown in city votes and that type of thing.

And yeah, pretty resounding, I'd say, vote to stay and remain.

And even when you look at that 20-some percent that voted in favour of having a referendum down the road, The reason for it breaks down into where a lot of them are just trying to send a message to Ottawa on that type of thing.