Pollster Angus Reid says the fourth wave of COVID-19 is renewing debate over community restrictions in Western Canada. Amidst rising concern, provincial governments are taking significantly different approaches to managing this fourth wave, prompting significantly different reactions from their respective constituents.

Reid finds 69 per cent of people in Atlantic Canada believe the restrictions, or lack of them, are about right. Quebec is at 60 per cent and Ontario, 57 per cent. Saskatchewan has about half the population satisfied while 14 per cent think the province has gone too far and 36 per cent say, not far enough. Manitoba has the lowest satisfaction rating at 35 per cent. Forty-five per cent say the province hasn’t gone far enough. Fifty-two per cent of people here believe that Scott Moe has done a good job, overall, of handling the pandemic.

The survey was conducted from August 7 to 10.