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The Week in Polling: Young Canadians want to become Americans; No level of government is fixing our housing crisis; Trump’s 51st state threat is igniting Canadian pride

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President Donald Trump hugs the American flag at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2019. Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo.

This is The Week in Polling, your Saturday dose of interesting numbers from top pollsters in Canada and around the world, curated by The Hub. Here’s what we’re looking at this week.

Four in ten young Canadians want to be American, if citizenship and conversion of assets to USD was guaranteed

A recent Ipsos poll found that over 40 percent of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 would vote for Canada to become the 51st American state, if the U.S. offered all Canadians full U.S. citizenship, a full conversion of the Canadian dollar, and all their personal financial assets to converted into U.S. dollars.

Among Canadians between the ages of 35 and 54, 33 percent would vote for Canada to become the 51st state. The least enthused were older Canadians. Seventeen percent of those over the age of 55 would also vote for Canada to become the 51st state. Overall, 31 percent of Canadians would vote for the annexation of Canada under those circumstances.

When asked whether they would vote to make Canada part of the U.S.—without specifying any perks—just under 80 percent of Canadians aged 18 to 54 and nearly 90 percent of those over 55 said they would not consider it.

Trump said in a briefing last week in North Carolina that one of the other perks he would offer Canadians is “a very big tax cut—a tremendous tax cut—because [Canadians] are very highly taxed.” He even went so far as to say that Canadians would “have much better health coverage,” if Canada were to become the 51st state.

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