Fewer people feel proud to be Canadian, poll suggests [Video]

How you feel about Canada might depend on how you feel about your bank account.

Canadians are feeling less patriotic than usual these days, an Angus Reid Institute poll released in December suggests. And there’s a good chance a person worried about the cost of living and other personal finance issues is also questioning the current state of Canada, according to the poll.

When asked how proud they are to be Canadian, just over a third of people surveyed in the poll, which was conducted from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, said they were “very proud,” compared to 52 per cent who said the same in a 2016 poll. 

Women and men over age 54 were more likely to be proud of Canada (over two-thirds) than women and men under age 35 (less than half).

For Saskatchewan respondents, the decline was even steeper. In 2016, 87 per cent of people polled in Saskatchewan said they were “very proud” of Canada, but that fell to …