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What Americans and Canadians agree — and disagree — on

April 08, 2023
GZERO Staff
What Americans and Canadians agree — and disagree — on | US-Canada Summit | GZERO Media

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Americans like to think: "Canadians are just like us." But many Canadians don't feel the same way about Americans.

Still, Americans and Canadians do mostly agree on a lot of things, as we know from recently polling by Maru Public Opinion for GZERO North.

What do Americans and Canadians find the most and least common ground on? Maru executive VP John Wright digs into the data from the survey in a conversation with GZERO's Tony Maciulis at a US-Canada Summit in Toronto.


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