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Within the past year, YouGov has explored the industries that Americans have positive and negative views of, as well as the industries Americans think should be more and less regulated. In both instances, we've found that political identity plays a large role in shaping Americans' views on various sectors of the U.S. economy, with Democrats and Republicans holding vastly different opinions on industries such as mining, higher education, and news media.

In our latest poll of 1,000 U.S. adult citizens about economic sectors, we look at how Americans perceive the political ideology of workers within American industries. We asked whether people in the U.S. employed in 30 sectors are very or somewhat liberal, very or somewhat conservative, or equally conservative and liberal. The results show that workers in certain sectors such as cannabis and entertainment are viewed by most Americans as predominantly liberal, while workers in other sectors such as firearms, oil, and gas are more likely to be viewed as conservative.

The five sectors from the list of 30 whose workers Americans are most likely to say are "mostly liberal" or "more liberal than conservative":

The five sectors from the list of 30 whose workers Americans are most likely to say are "mostly conservative" or "more conservative than liberal":

We also find that a person's own ideology shapes their views on the ideology of workers in various industries, with Americans generally being more likely to say a sector's workers belong to the ideology opposite to their own. For example, Americans who identify as conservatives are more likely than liberals to describe sectors as either "mostly liberal" or "more liberal than conservative," with the largest gaps in perceptions existing for news media and government.

Americans who describe themselves as liberal, on the other hand, are more likely than conservatives to say workers in certain sectors are "mostly conservative" or "more conservative than liberal." This is especially true for banking and finance, as well as health insurance and pharmaceuticals.

Despite some large differences on the magnitude of their estimates, liberals and conservatives generally agree on their ranking of sectors by the political ideology of workers.

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Carl Bialik and Linley Sanders contributed to this article

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Methodology: This poll was conducted online on March 21 - 23, 2023 among 1,000 U.S. adult citizens. Each respondent was asked about a randomly selected sample of 20 of the 30 sectors. Respondents were selected from YouGovs opt-in panel using sample matching. A random sample (stratified by gender, age, race, education, geographic region, and voter registration) was selected from the 2019 American Community Survey. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondents most recent answer given prior to March 15, 2022, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (33% Democratic, 28% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 4%.

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OTTAWAPierre Poilievres Conservatives are the reason the interim ethics commissioner quit, Liberal House Leader Mark Holland said Thursday as the government remained on the defensive over its ethical track record.

Martine Richards appointment to the post drew criticism late last month after it was revealed shes the sister-in-law of Liberal cabinet minister Dominic Leblanc.

Still, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended the choice, noting she joined the office under the previous Conservative government, was second-in-command and there are procedures in place to guard from conflicts.

But the Opposition Conservatives insisted putting a family member in the position tainted the work of the office, which has found Trudeau and several cabinet ministers in violation of ethics laws several times since 2015.

On Tuesday, the Conservatives had successfully passed a motion to study the issue at the ethics committee and have Richard as well as Leblanc appear.

Then on Wednesday, her office announced she was stepping down, effective immediately.

They gave no explanation and said they would not be answering further questions.

During question period Thursday, as the Conservatives needled the Liberals with questions over not just that but Trudeaus controversial winter trip to Jamaica, Holland lay the blame for the fact the job is now vacant at their feet.

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What happens when they attack people and they engage in these partisan attacks is, yes, those people do leave, he said.

Richards office noted that without a commissioner in place, there are decisions in the office that simply cannot be taken, though they did not elaborate.

In the meantime, all they can do is give guidance on how to follow the rules.

One piece of guidance they gave recently was to Trudeau regarding a trip his family was taking to Jamaica over the Christmas holiday.

This week, it emerged that trip was to an exclusive luxury villa resort owned by long-time family friends of the Trudeaus, who are also donors to a foundation set up in his fathers memory.

The Conservatives argue that amounts to people paying for access to the prime minister, and Trudeau has been under pressure to pay back the cost of the rooms which rent for upwards of $9,000 a night during peak season.

So far, he has kept saying he was with family friends, and had ensured ahead of time that would be in keeping with ethics rules. There are no prohibitions on accepting gifts from friends, provided the friends paid for it themselves.

So, who will the prime minister ask advice from the next time he wants to vacation with rich friends? Conservative MP Luc Berthold asked in French during question period, noting the now-vacant job.

In response, Innovation Minister Franois-Phillippe Champagne said the Tories focus is misplaced.

The Conservative party is completely stuck on issues that actually, Canadians dont care about.

The Liberals have committed to filling the post as soon as possible.

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I well recall watching, as a staffer on a small television in the office of Kevin Rudds chief of staff the result of the 2009 Liberal leadership contest being read out. The battle had been a shemozzle. There were no good options. We had thought Joe Hockey the biggest threat and most likely victor . Malcolm Turnbull was too sharply, recently damaged. Still, when Tony Abbott triumphed, we were stunned. Then we grinned. This, we thought, would be easy. History records it was the opposite.

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Observing, at close quarters, Liberal crisis and resurgence made me sceptical about claims of a partys impending collapse. And yet, returning to Australia, I find myself becoming sceptical of my old scepticism. The weight of evidence is accumulating.

Byelections dont mean much, but the Aston result seems different. The party machine . This was the type of seat . And oppositions very, very rarely lose seats in byelections.

Duttons counter-intuitive counter-offensive was to announce his party would oppose a policy that . Duttons opposition to the Voice was probably inevitable, but had he kept this a personal decision he would not have become the protagonist of the fight. The decision to bind the frontbench turns this into a clear Dutton-Albanese battle. . It has tied the party to regressive social policy, will keep attention off the economy, while reinforcing the perception that Duttons strategy is simply to oppose things. Resolve polling now suggests voters . He may yet succeed in the referendum, but I tend to that it is a no-win proposition. A Yes vote will harm him; but a No vote will make Australians want to forget the whole affair, including Dutton.

The problem for Liberal Party optimists is that repeating itself is not the only thing that history does. Time brings change. And over the 20-odd years that both Albanese and Dutton have been in parliament, the clearest change is the gradual decline in support for the major parties. If that trend continues, one or both of our major parties will either drastically change or collapse. Neither party can afford to ignore this; but the Liberals, facing serious decline among both women and young people, far less so.

Dutton, to his credit, has been surprisingly honest about at least one dimension of the partys problems. Talking to The Australians Paul Kelly, for a long article , Dutton admitted the party had not stood for any substantive policy formulation since Tony Abbott was removed. As a result, we allowed ourselves to be defined by our opponents. This was a failure of leadership but it was not only that, and this is where Duttons honesty ends.

Both Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison found themselves trapped, unable to move for fear of repercussions from their increasingly feverish party. Journalist James Campbell : if the Liberal Party adopted policies that reflected the actual values of its members it would be smashed at the ballot box. Why should Dutton find this dilemma any simpler than his predecessors?

If the single dominant fact about politics right now is the crisis in the Liberal Party, the most important question is: what will the Albanese government do with this rare opportunity? It is unclear it will do much.

This means that the defining feature of the contest between the two parties still at an early stage, to be fair is that each is promising to be something different from what it currently appears to be. Each expects us to give it the benefit of the doubt. Dutton has done absolutely nothing to alter the Liberal Party he inherited, but promises he will.

On the other side, Anthony Albanese holds out the prospect of progressive government. As an of observers , in most areas schools, health, taxes, arguably climate this remains an article of faith rather than demonstrable fact. Now we can add to that the cold water the government last week . Perhaps this is exactly the way to make change stick by doing it slowly or perhaps this is what happens when Labors left takes power, with all the compromises that inevitably entails: who does that leave to prod the party back in the direction of its ideals?

Still, for both leaders, their implicit call for patience is probably reasonable significant change takes time. Christmas, with the Voice vote out of the way, is probably a fair time to take stock. (This will be no comfort to those trying to survive on JobSeeker.)

In 2009, Abbott took an issue which seemed both to divide the Liberals and make them seem outdated and turned it into a formidable political weapon. Fifteen years later, the damage that did to Australia is clear. At the time it seemed good, at least, for the Liberal Party; with hindsight even that much is unclear. It will be fascinating to see which elements from history recur. As was the case then but as too many at the time forgot much more is riding on this than the electoral fortunes, or even the long-term future, of a single political party that, after all, has existed for less than a century.

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Michael Ferguson,Treasurer

The Rockliff Liberal Govermment is getting things done to deliver lower power prices for Tasmanians.

Under our plan, both now and in the future, Tasmanians will always pay among the lowest power prices in the nation, the Treasurer said.

We have the most generous electricity concessions of any State and weve also got among the lowest regulated power prices in the country.

Labors so-called power price cap is a con-job that is unaffordable and undeliverable.

In fact, Labor tried the exact same thing on at the 2010 election (5% price cap guarantee) only to ignore it when they were re-elected in partnership with the Greens.

"It was a hoax then and is a hoax again now.

Unlike Labors false promises, well continue to deliver real action on power prices for Tasmanians, as weve done from day one."

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Its hard to imagine a labour dispute more cut and dried than the one before us, in which more than 150,000 workers in the federal bureaucracy across the country are striking.

During tax season, and with an only just recently cleared passport backlog, employees are walking off the job demanding working conditions most Canadians could only dream of.

The Trudeau government, not known to be unkind to the public sector, has offered boosts of three per cent a year. Thats a more-than-fair offer, as two per cent is the standard annual change in the consumer price index.

Record inflation is coming down, and it will likely return to regular levels as the Bank of Canada takes extraordinary measures to dampen demand.

Even if that werent true, it would be a dangerous move to award what the majority of these workers are asking for: 13.5 per cent in wage hikes over three years. Those who work for Canada Revenue Agency want even more, 30 per cent.

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If all employers gave in to these kinds of wage demands, wed have seven per cent inflation forever, and the savings of ordinary Canadians would collapse in value.

Some low-income workers do need emergency raises just to eat, as grocery costs rise. But PSAC members are not those workers. Its simply not fair for the rest of the labour force to endure corporate austerity and price increases while government employees dine out.

Another important piece of context is the pandemic.

In the lockdown era of COVID-19, millions of Canadians saw their income disrupted, with workers in entire industries turning to CERB and employment insurance payments to keep their homes and put food on the table.

Government workers didnt lose an hour of pay, even as much of the economy ground to a halt. The privilege of working from home, which these workers are fighting to maintain, was a temporary measure to serve public health, not another perk for bureaucrats looking to avoid a daily commute and parking fees.

Do these people have no idea how tone-deaf they sound to the rest of the country? It is ordinary working citizens who pay to support the public sector, with its bloated salaries, defined-benefit pensions and work-from-home lifestyle.

To heck with them. They dont deserve another a fat raise while impairing service delivery across the country. The federal Liberals, if they have any sense, will break the strike and send these entitled employees back to work.

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