“If pride towards Canada has increased following existential threats made by US President Donald Trump, it remains lower than the peaks affected forty years ago, when Canadians were also more ready to fight for their country,” said the Angus Reid Institute in its survey published Thursday.
This text is a translation of an article by CTV News.
52% of respondents say they are proud when they think of the Canadian Armed Forces, compared to 79% in November 2019.
In addition, the percentage of interviewees saying that they do not feel proud when they think of the Canadian Armed Forces went from 12% six years ago to 31% today.
The survey also revealed that 18-34 year olds are less likely (43%) to predict an armed conflict which would force them to engage in the army to serve in combat. At the same time, the most willing to engage are over 54 years old (55%).
Those who voted for the conservative party in the April federal elections are more likely than other voters to volunteer to go into battle, 59%. Respondents who supported the Liberals are divided, 41% of them would not volunteer, against 47% who would.
Methodology
The Angus Reid Institute led an online survey from June 20 to 23, 2025 with a random sample of 1,619 Canadian adults members of the Angus Reid Forum. The sample has been balanced in order to be representative of the adult population nationally depending on the region, sex, age, household income and level of education, according to the Canadian census. For comparison purposes only, a probabilistic sample of this size would have an error margin of more or less two percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The differences in the totals or between the totals are due to the rounded. The survey was commissioned and funded by ARI.