Overview

• The online survey conducted Aug. 28–Sept. 5 found Eby down five points since June and 12 since March, based on 528 B.C. respondents with an estimated ±4% margin of error.
• Eby is tied with Ontario’s Doug Ford for the second-lowest approval among premiers, below Quebec’s François Legault at 22% and far behind Manitoba’s Wab Kinew at 61%.
• Reporting links the slide to a projected deficit of roughly $10–10.9 billion, rising debt and a second straight year of credit-rating downgrades for British Columbia.
• Headwinds also include an ongoing BCGEU strike, disputes over Indigenous land-rights decisions, controversy over comments on the Temporary Foreign Worker program and a high-profile drug funding reversal for Charleigh Pollock after expert intervention.
• Statistics Canada reported B.C. lost 16,000 jobs in August and unemployment rose to 6.2%, a backdrop Angus Reid’s analysis cites in describing a clear downward trend.