A shift toward support for the monarchy in reader polls appears to be connected to friction with the Donald Trump administration in the United States.
Village Media has run three online polls about how readers would vote in a referendum on Canada's relationship with the monarchy: to keep it or to become a republic.
In the first of these, in May of 2023, more or less around the time of Charles's coronation, 56 per cent of readers said they would vote for a republic.
In two identical polls this year, one recently and one in February, after Trump's annexation threats had become an issue, that had flipped: readers said they would vote to keep the monarchy, by about a 60:40 margin.
Liberals are the most enthusiastic about the King, with Conservatives second-last, above the PPC. (This is a reversal of the historic pattern in Canadian politics, in which Conservatives were loyal to the Crown, and Liberals ambivalent about it.)
Older readers were more inclined to be monarchists ...
... as are women.
Lower-income readers were less inclined to a republic:
The party preference pattern carries over to attitudes to the major party leaders:
And the more open readers are to tattoos, the less open they are to continuing to have a king:
An extra poll: cross-referencing federal and provincial polls, we can see that about a fifth of provincial PC voters voted Liberal federally in April's election.
Our poll coverage will return in early June.