What happens when a pollster becomes a legislator? How does a career exploring and measuring public opinion help serve Canadians as a Senator?
Senator Dr. Donna Dasko was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Trudeau on June 6, 2018.
She is my guest on this episode of inFocus with David Coletto.
Prior to her appointment, she was Senior Vice-President at Environics Research Group where she lead major research studies for federal and provincial governments, private sector clients, and NGOs.
Senator Dasko is also a co-founded and National Chair of Equal Voice, a non-partisan organization aimed at electing more women in Canada.
Senator Dasko joined me on the podcast to discuss her career as a pollster and how her experience has impacted her work as a Senator at the centre of national public policy making.
In this episode, I share a briefing on Abacus Data's latest survey on Canadian Politics.We surveyed 2,000 Canadians from March 25 to 30, 2021.The survey finds the Liberals have opened up an 8-point lead over the Conservatives. You can find all the details on the survey here: https://abacusdata.ca/liberals-lead-by-8-otoole-negatives/ ...
For the past two weeks, most of the world’s leaders were meeting in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the 26th United Nations climate change conference, also known as COP26. UK Prime Minister, in welcoming world leaders to the UK, described the conference as the “world’s moment of truth” and a now or never proposition to tackle climate change and work together to keep global temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Scientists have said crossing the 1.5-degree threshold risks unleashing far more severe climate change effects on people, wildlife, and ecosystems. On this episode of inFocus, I’m joined by Merran Smith, the Executive Director at Clean Energy Canada, a climate and clean energy program within the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. It works to accelerate Canada’s clean energy transition by sharing the story of the global shift to renewable energy, clean technology, and sustainable industries. It conducts original research, convenes influential dialogues, informs policy leadership, and drives public engagement. Merran and I spoke as climate negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow wrap up. We discussed the scale of the challenge the world faces to confront climate change, the opportunities for Canada in the clean energy sector, and the role of public opinion in building consensus and driving action on the energy transition. ...
In this episode of inFocus, our latest 2021 Canadian election survey that was just released today.The survey finds the Liberals still ahead by 4 - LPC 33%, CPC 29%, NDP 23% but with big gains in Mr. O'Toole's personal numbers. His favourable jumped 6 points from last week. For all the details on the poll check out the release on the Abacus Data website.Thanks for listening. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send them along to [email protected] ...
