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A majority of respondents, 56%, reported having had a favourable impression of Trudeau; 39% said the same of Harper and 37% Mulcair.

The national poll was conducted June 13-16 at the end of the last full week the Commons was sitting.

Mulcair fared better on the flip side of the favourability ratings. Thirty-two per cent of respondents said they had an unfavourable impression of the NDP leader, which put him between Trudeau (29% unfavourable) and Harper (54% unfavourable).

Harris-Decima asked the same set of questions in April, and found that Mulcair’s favourability rating actually fell five points and his negatives rose four points during those last frenetic weeks in the House, which featured his prosecutorial grilling of the prime minister on the Senate expense scandal.

Harper’s favourability numbers barely budged between April and mid-June, scandal notwithstanding, and Trudeau’s numbers also held firm.

The pollster also asked a series of questions about specific leadership attributes that provided some potentially counter-intuitive results, given the media narrative of a disastrous spring for the prime minister, a Mulcair renaissance and Trudeau somewhat adrift.

Fully 40% of respondents said they felt Harper was most capable on economic matters, followed by Trudeau at 21% and Mulcair at 14%.

Harper also prevailed on best judgment, 29%, followed by Trudeau at 23 and Mulcair at 19.

Asked which leader “shares your values,” 31% chose Trudeau, 26 picked Harper and just 16% chose Mulcair.

And when asked “who cares most about people like you,” respondents chose Trudeau (31%) ahead of Harper (21) and Mulcair (19).

Harper, after seven years in the job, easily led on the question of experience required to be prime minister with 47%, while Trudeau and Mulcair were tied at 16% each.

The survey carries a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

— With files from Joan Bryden