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The Angus Reid poll heard from 1,800 Canadian respondents through an online survey between November 28 and December 6. The results fall within a margin of error of two percentage points, 19 times out of 20. It found Canadians’ recognition of cabinet ministers has improved since 2017, when six out of every 10 Canadians said they could not name more than five cabinet ministers. The same poll this year found the same ratio of people could now name 11. (Each participant in the poll was shown either 11 or 12 photos of ministers, along with their name and title, and asked whether they thought that minister was doing a good job, a bad job, or whether they didn’t recognize the minister in question or know enough about their performance to form an opinion.)

Those poll was conducted from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6, after Freeland negotiated a tentative new trade agreement with the U.S., ending more than a year of tense and closely-scrutinized negotiations. Meanwhile, Sohi has had to navigate a second round of government negotiations with First Nations communities who oppose the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, after Ottawa purchased the existing project for $4.5 billion in August. Hussen has been immigration minister amid a rising number of people seeking asylum in Canada, which has put heavy stress on the system that oversees such claims.

Finance Minster Bill Morneau received among the lowest scores at -20 (or, 23 per cent of respondents saying his performance has been “good”, while 43 per cent say it has been “bad.”) That was equal to his 2017 score, despite Ottawa introducing its controversial small business tax changes that year, which received fierce blowback from the business community.