CALGARY,
AB, June 28, 2024 /CNW/ - Just in time for
Canada Day, a new poll commissioned by popular political
podcast The Strategists reveals that a divided country
can't even agree on how to pronounce its name.
The Leger poll, which asked Canadians "How do you pronounce
Canada?", found 52% say
"CAN-A-DA", while 44% say "CA-NA-DA".
Language makes up much of the difference, with Francophones
preferring "CA-NA-DA" 85% to 13% and Anglophones preferring
"CAN-A-DA" 65% to 30%. "CAN-A-DA" is also strongly preferred by
Conservatives (62% to 32%), while Liberal and NDP supporters are
more evenly split – preferring "CAN-A-DA" to "CA-NA-DA" by more
modest 50% to 47% and 51% to 45% margins respectively.
Stephen Carter is one of the
hosts of The Strategists. Being very old, he expressed
frustration and confusion with the mixed result: "I was sure we
settled this in 1967 with the release of that Centennial Song.
'CA-NA-DA. We love you.' It's all there. Bobby Gimby was a genius."
Corey Hogan, another host of
The Strategists – and somebody who counts himself among the
3% of Canadians who don't know how they pronounce the name of the
country in which they live – said he wasn't surprised by the split
results: "It rarely comes up. I guess I've read it in old books
more than I've heard people say it."
Third host Zain Velji offered more cogent analysis, which he
provided in the form of a very long question that was paywalled
behind a $6/month subscription
fee.
ABOUT THE POLL RESULTS
The results come from an online survey of 1607 Canadian
residents aged 18 years of age or older, with quotas in place to
generate a demographically representative sample. It ran
June 21st, 2024 to
June 24th, 2024. Results
were weighted according to age, gender, region, and education.
Full results and methodology can be downloaded here.
ABOUT THE STRATEGISTS
The Strategists is an award-winning political podcast with a
very reliable episode numbering system hosted by Alberta-based political strategists Zain
Velji, Stephen Carter and
Corey Hogan. The gang dissect the
news of the day, pass judgment on strategy choices and lift back
the curtain on how decisions are made. It has been described as
"the least deliberate podcast of all time", "shockingly insightful"
and "sports talk radio for politics".
SOURCE The Strategists Media Corporation