Public Opinion Polls on Media Policy

Engaging Passive News Consumers (Global Strategy Group) – October 2025

Public Opinion on the Online Streaming Act (CMPA, Pollara) – September 2025

Reuters Oxford Digital News Report 2025 – June 2025

Reuters Oxford Digital News Report Canada 2025 – June 2025

Canadian Identity and Canadian Cultural Industries (CMPA, Abacus) – April 14, 2025

Perceptions of Canadian Programming and News (CRTC, Phoenix SPI) – February 2025

Local Media Study in Canadian Communities (Public Policy Forum, Ipsos) – January 27, 2025

Canadians’ Perception of the Idea of Canada Becoming the 51st State of the United States (Leger) – December 2024

Do We Need the CBC? (Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy) – October 2024

CPC policy hypotheticals: Canadians see a balanced budget, longer jail time as ‘good’; defunding CBC as ‘bad’ – Angus Reid Poll – September 2024

McGill Report on Impact of Meta’s ban on Canadian news – August 2024

TMU The Dais report (Pollara) on news, misinformation and online harms – August 2024

Trust in Media: How Canadians feel about their news outlets (Pollara) – July 2024

Trust in Media (Public Square/The Hub) – July 8, 2024

Reuters Digital News Report / Canada – June 17, 2024:

Reuters Digital News Report / Global Report – June 17, 2024

Public support for Internet regulation, online harms bill, porn site bill (Nanos) – April 8, 2024

Public support for Online Harms bill C-63 (Leger) – March 13, 2024

Opinions on Bill S-210 Access to Pornography (Leger) – February 2024

Pornography Consumption Among Americans (Leger) – February 2024

Defunding or reforming the CBC (Sparks Insights) – January 11, 2024

Privy Council Office internal poll on public trust in media – December 27, 2023

Quebec poll on news consumption in response to Facebook throttle (CROP) – September 29, 2023

Public attitudes to newspaper merger, government aid to journalism, defunding CBC – (Angus Reid) July 13, 2023

Opinion Poll measures the impact of Big Tech threats of news throttling – (Angus Reid) July 11, 2023

Support for Bill C-18 drops when news throttling threat is made (Maru) July 6, 2023

2023 Oxford Reuters Digital News Report, June 2023

Confidence in Institutions (US) – (Gallup News) – 2023

Support for CBC (Spark Advocacy) – April 2023

News trust and consumption (Maru/Kaiser) – November 2022

Public Support for Bill C-18 (Nanos/CAB) – November 2022

Public Support for Google amendments to Bill C-18 (Abacus) – October 14, 2022 and MediaPolicy.ca critique of the polling.

Public Opinion on defunding CBC, media consumption and other issues (Mainstreet) – September 2022

Narrative Research: Awareness and opinion on Bill C-11, July 11, 2022

2022 Oxford Reuters Digital News Report – Canada (Summary) (June 2022)

2022 Oxford Reuters Digital News Report – Canada (In Depth)

2022 Oxford Reuters Digital News Report – Global

Public Support for blocking the Rogers Shaw Merger – Ekos/Gandalf Group (May 31 2022)

Public Support for FaceGoogle Pay-for-News legislation – Pollara/Newsmedia Canada (May 30, 2022)

Public Support for federal legislation to regulate the Internet – Nanos/Globe (May 10, 2022)

Public Support for federal legislation to require foreign streamers to promote and support CanCon audio and video content – Léger/Socan (February 3, 2022)

2021 Oxford Reuters Digital News Report – (June 23, 2021)

Attitudes and opinions towards commercial radio in Canada – CRTC (Ipsos) – (December 18, 2020)

Canadian Attitudes on Canadian Content and Regulation – Nanos/Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (2019)

Nanos Polls Commissioned by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, 2015-2017.

Please E-Mail me at howard.law@bell.net with any additional public opinion polls about Canadian media.