OTTAWA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Canadians expressed deep anxiety over the direction of the United States, with 80 percent of them saying their southern neighbor is on the wrong track, according to a survey released on Sunday by Abacus Data.
The survey revealed that only 14 percent of Canadians believed that the U.S. is moving in the right direction.
Meanwhile, 47 percent of Canadians said their own country is headed in the right direction, while 39 percent said it is on the wrong track.
The contrast between perceptions of Canada and perceptions of the world has widened steadily since Donald Trump returned to the White House and since Mark Carney became Canadian prime minister, said the survey.
"Public opinion today is being shaped less by domestic exhaustion and more by external anxiety," said David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data.
Coletto noted that while Canadians remain deeply worried about affordability and economic uncertainty, they are increasingly attributing these pressures to external forces, such as Trump, instability in the United States, and broader global volatility rather than blaming the federal government directly.
A total of 59 percent approved of the job the Canadian federal government is doing and just 27 percent disapproved. This is the highest approval rating for the federal government with the next highest record at 57 percent in August 2016 for the Trudeau government, said the survey.
