Jack Jedwab Executive Director Association for Canadian Studies December 2010

1. Trust and Confidence in Armed Forces/Military and in National Governments in Canada, the United States, Germany and Spain Jack Jedwab Executive Director Association for Canadian Studies December 2010

2. Methodology • One poll was conducted amongst Canadians by the firm Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies on the week ending 2010-09-07, asking respondents across Canada if they ''strongly agree", "somewhat agree", "somewhat disagree" or "strongly disagree'' on the following question “Overall how much trust and confidence do you have in the following to do a good job?” Armed Forces/Military Federal Government (in Canada and the United States) and National Government (in Germany and Spain) • This report presents the findings in Canada of the survey conducted among a sample of an average of 1,707 adults comprising 825 men and 882 women 18 years of age and older and is a demographically representative national sample. • In addition, the ACS contracted reputable polling companies in the United States, Spain and Germany to run the same battery of questions with a similar, representative sample size (of 1000 persons) in order to run cross-national comparisons on the issue at hand.

3. Confidence much greater in Military than in government. Canadians more confidence in Government than American, German and Spanish Populations

4. In both Canada and the USA trust and confidence in the military rises with age as well as for federal government in the USA.

5. In Canada, Non-Immigrants somewhat more confident than immigrants in military, allophones are also more confident in federal government. In USA whites much more confident in military than in the federal government while the Black/African American population is more confident than the white population in the Federal government