In a year-end report, the Angus Reid Institute has identified five issues to watch in 2022.

They include "health care, environment/climate change, coronavirus/COVID-19 response, housing affordability, and the economy".

Within the report is an eye-opening chart showing public perceptions around the federal government's response to the climate emergency.

There were 1,611 surveyed on this issue across the country, with provincial sample sizes reflecting their share of the national population.

It showed that 62 percent of Saskatchewan respondents and 56 percent of Alberta respondents felt that the Trudeau government was "pushing too hard on climate change".

That compared to just 14 percent of Quebeckers and 24 percent of British Columbians who felt this way

A significant majority in those provinces—67 percent of Quebec respondents and 59 percent of British Columbians—felt that the Trudeau government was doing too little to address "climate change". (The Angus Reid Institute has not followed the Guardian in changing its terminology from "climate change" to "climate crisis", "climate emergency" or "global heating".)

Quebec and B.C. largely rely on green hydropower for their electricity.

In Ontario, which is the media capital of Canada, 51 percent of poll respondents felt that the Trudeau government was doing too little to address "climate change". That compared to 31 percent of Ontarians who felt that this issue was being pushed too hard and 18 percent who felt that the government has taken a well-balanced approach.

These results came from a November poll, which was the same month when a series of atmospheric rivers pounded B.C., resulting in massive flooding in Merritt, Princeton, and Abbotsford.