4 in 5 Canadians View China Negatively: Poll

Police patrol outside the Canadian embassy in Beijing, China, on Jan. 15, 2019. Greg Baker/Getty Images

Nearly four in five Canadians say they do not have a positive view of China, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Forty-seven percent of Canadians have a “very unfavourable” view of China, while 30 percent hold a “mostly unfavourable” view, a new survey (pdf) released by Angus Reid Institute (ARI) found.