A recent survey shows just a handful of Canadians still find COVID-19 the top national issue of concern, while inflation rose to be the primary worry.
The Nanos survey, published June 3, finds that just 1.6 percent, or about 17 people out of the 1,070 respondents, believe that COVID-19 is the most important concern for the nation.
The number of people who found COVID-19 to be the most important national issue peaked around May 2020, with 50 percent of respondents saying so. The issue has continued to decline in importance in polls since, despite ongoing waves of resurgence as the pandemic developed.
“Worry about coronavirus continues to drop off the radar as Canadians increasingly focus on meat and potato issues,” Nik Nanos, founder and chief data scientist of Nanos Research, said in the news release….