A recent poll on the popularity of Canada’s premiers was not good for the man running our province as John Horgan took a ten percent hit since the beginning of the year, dropping to 46 percent.

The Angus Reid Institute’s Dave Korzinski was on the NL Morning News and said with the LNG pipeline controversy, the Premier may be a victim of circumstance.

“The people who say that this tactic of being patient and using discussions with the community members, with the Hereditary Chiefs, there’s about half the population that thinks that’s the right way to go and the other half say we should actually be using forceful evictions if we have to, we’ve got to tear down blockades and get things moving again.”

Korzinski says both supporters of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and those against the blockades do have one thing in common.

“Neither of them feel that either Trudeau or Horgan have done a good job,” he said. “So, it tends to be an issue where everybody has been very critical of the response and it’s hard to say from a government perspective what you could do to get things moving.”

He says frustration from both groups has put both the Premier and the Prime Minister in a no win situation.

“It’s one of those issues that I don’t think was going to have a quick resolution and in a situation where that’s all that people really want. It’s kind of a lose – lose spot so I’d be interested to watch and see what happens over the course of the next couple of months with both Trudeau and Horgan as they clean up this and then get kind of a little further away from it because I think it’s a very volatile time.”

Korzinski says a more detailed poll on issues affecting British Columbians is due out in the next few days to get a pulse on how we may be looking to vote in next year’s election.