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Most Canadians think the federal government is working better today with the Liberals at the helm than when the Conservatives were in power, a new survey suggests.

The survey by the Environics Institute and the Institute on Governance into public perceptions about the way they are governed found Canadians are more likely to feel government is working — as opposed to broken — than they were in 2014.

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Two surveys into Canadians’ views of how we are governed were conducted 18 months apart, the most recent in February, but the comparative results are being made public now for the first time.

They suggest Canadians may still have the same complaints about government as they did in 2014 but that concerns about its lack of trustworthiness, its corruption or its not being responsive to citizens’ wants and needs have declined significantly.

Keith Neuman, executive director of the Environics Institute, said he couldn’t conclusively say the change was due to the so-called Trudeau effect because the survey didn’t ask about political affiliations or how respondents voted.