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EDMONTON — More Canadians trust Andrew Scheer to manage Canada’s immigration than Justin Trudeau, and more than half say the Liberals have been too soft on border issues, says new polling from the Angus Reid Institute.

According to the poll, released hours before Monday’s English leaders’ debate, 28 per cent of respondents believe Scheer is best placed to handle the immigration file, whereas 22 per cent believe that of Trudeau, and 18 per cent side with Jagmeet Singh, the New Democratic Party leader.

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Still, 17 per cent of respondents have not made up their minds.

The polling also shows that there’s a reasonable level of contentment with the Liberals’ four-year record on immigration: 47 per cent believe the government has done well, while 53 per cent feel they’ve done poorly. Six per cent of Conservative voters say they feel very positively about the Liberal record, whereas 35 per cent of voters feel very negatively about it.