Canadians are ambivalent about the state of their national economy. They are somewhat divided in their assessments of the performance of the American and Canadian economies in recent years with a sizeable minority saying that we have outperformed the Americans and another sizeable minority believing that we under-performed them.

When told that real, inflation-adjusted income has been static in Canada for a generation, a clear majority of Canadians say that this is certainly something that they have felt and noticed in their daily lives. Meanwhile, a noticeable minority of Canadians, especially English-speaking males under 40 years of age, say that they are increasingly thinking of relocating to the U.S. because of the comparative underperformance of the Canadian economy.

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