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What do Canadian people think about government spending?

Economic axis · 🇨🇦 Canada · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.

No published Canadian reading yet. DataRadio holds 0 Canadian answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 100 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.

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Where Canada sits on economic

What is measured about Canada on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.

Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2024
13.7%
somewhat below the middle
Health spending
WHO Global Health Expenditure · 2024
11.3%
among the highest in the world
Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
$57,989
higher than most countries

Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.

The questions that bear on government spending

Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.

A · A government should balance its books, even if that means cutting services.
B · A government should borrow to keep services going, rather than cut them.
World, unweighted: 0% A · 100% neither · 0% B · n = 1
🇨🇦 n=0
of 100

A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.

Asked another way

The same question, as people put it.

  • Canada public opinion on government spending
  • Government spending poll canada
  • What do canadian people think about government spending
  • What percentage of canadian people support government spending

Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.