TORONTO – Three out of four Canadians would support a national energy corridor and a pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada, even if there were environmental and Indigenous land claims concerns along the way. And three-quarters of Canadians would oppose a potential economic union with the United States and a single dollar modeled after the European euro. That’s according to a series of new polls by Nanos for CTV, conducted among 1,001 Canadian adults between Feb. 28 and March 5. 

Regarding the first one, about the pipeline (the research is downloadable here), Nanos found that 54 percent of respondents support a cross-country pipeline, while 21 percent “somewhat” support the idea; 11 percent of respondents oppose the pipeline, while 10 percent “somewhat” oppose it. At the territorial level, the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba showed the highest support for the energy corridor, with over 85% in favor of the idea, while in the Atlantic provinces the percentage of people in favor is 80%, except in Quebec where only 60% would be in favor of the pipeline.

The poll results still show that support for a cross-Canada pipeline is quite high, at a time when companies and politicians are calling for more interprovincial trade partnerships, in light of the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States that has resulted in the restriction of the availability of some American goods.

Canadians do not feel particularly “friendly” to Americans at this particular moment: another proof is in the second Nanos poll (downloadable here), which found that three-quarters of Canadians are opposed to the idea of ​​an economic union with the United States in which Canada would adopt the U.S. dollar. The proposed concept would be similar to the European Union’s system, where there is a single currency, free trade and free movement of people with European countries, but each nation still has control over health care, education and taxation within its own borders. A sticking point that is not popular in North America, according to the survey: 65% of respondents said they were “against” an economic union with the United States and the adoption of the US dollar, while 10% said they were “somewhat opposed”. Only 9% supported the idea, while 11% supported it “somewhat”. The Atlantic provinces showed the highest opposition to the economic union between Canada and the United States, with 79.8%.

The same survey found that 65% of people support or “somewhat” support a ban on all U.S. companies bidding on Canadian federal, provincial, or municipal government contracts, while 31% oppose or “somewhat” oppose the ban.

Finally, respondents were asked whether they had made any “financial changes” in response to the U.S. tariffs, with 46% saying they had made no changes. A third of respondents said they had simply cut back on spending; 16% said they delayed or canceled a major purchase; and 12% increased the amount they had put into savings. Only 6% stopped buying U.S. products and instead chose to buy local, while 2% said they avoided traveling to the United States.

Another poll, by Leger, highlights another aspect: few Canadians are open to US President Donald Trump’s repeated proposals for Canada to become a US state, although interest in it is growing among conservative supporters and those who live in Alberta. The poll, conducted online among a sample of 1,548 Canadian adults from February 28 to March 2, finds that only 9% of Canadians want Canada to become the 51st state, while 85% do not. The rejection is clear across all regions, political parties and age groups, although – as we said – support for the idea is highest in Alberta (15%) and lowest in Atlantic Canada (3%) with less than 1 in 10 people in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia wanting it. About 18 per cent of Conservative voters said they wanted Canada to become a US state, while 97 per cent of Liberal and NDP voters and 94 per cent of Bloc Quebecois voters said they did not want that.

The poll suggests a similar level of refusal among Canadians when asked if they would like to become US citizens, with 12 per cent saying yes and 82 per cent saying no; again, Albertans were the most likely to say yes (21 per cent) while Atlantic Canadians were the least likely (4 per cent). Conservative respondents were significantly more interested in becoming US citizens (21 per cent) than Liberal and NDP respondents (5 per cent each).

The survey also analyses several other aspects of Canada-US relations at this particular moment: the entire research can be downloaded and/or consulted here: Trump_Tariffs_Tracking_March_3rd-2025_CAN-US_EN