New Poll

Canadian poll.

John Kerry may still be in a tight contest with President George W. Bush in opinion polls of U.S. voters, but if they ran north of the border, there is no doubt that the Massachusetts senator would win handily.

French Canadians are very positive.

It shows that a majority of Canadians (60 per cent) would vote for Mr. Kerry over Mr. Bush (22 per cent).

Republicans who snicker at Mr. Kerry for looking a bit too "French" wouldn't be surprised by the poll's regional breakdowns. Among Canadians, Quebeckers tend to harbour the most positive judgments about their New England neighbour. Respondents from la belle province were most likely to say they would vote for Mr. Kerry (69 per cent).

But they admire American citizens (73%) except for Quebec (66%).   On a less positive note, extapolating a bit, some 27% to 34% hate our guts.  

Mostly, though, the Canadia mega-media would like to run our foreign policy.

In general, a majority of respondents believed Mr. Kerry would do a better job than Mr. Bush in building relationships with other world leaders (62 per cent), in being a friend to Canada (56 per cent) and in dealing with Prime Minister Paul Martin and his government (54 per cent).

It's useless, of course, to ask with what world leaders Bush should build friendships.   What they really mean is that president Bush should, like Bill Clinton, defer to international organizations like the U.N. or pretend the EU is really a democratic organization not rife with corrupt bureaucrats elected by 24% of the voting populations in their countries.   Or maybe it's just that president Bush, unlike Bill Clinton, won't bow to the mega-media as though THEY, not he, are in charge.