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About Mario Canseco

Mario Canseco is the President of Research Co. Mario has analyzed and conducted public opinion research since 2003, designing and managing research projects for clients across the private and public sectors, as well as non-profit organizations and associations. From 2013 to 2017, Mario established Insights West’s electoral forecasting program, issuing 23 correct predictions of democratic processes in Canada and the United States, including the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, the 2015 Alberta provincial election, the 2016 United States presidential election, and the 2017 British Columbia provincial election. Throughout his career, Mario coordinated research teams for a global public opinion firm that operated in Canada, the United States and Britain, worked as an editorial researcher for Peter C. Newman’s books “The Secret Mulroney Tapes” and “Here Be Dragons”; as a research and communications specialist for the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC; and in various journalistic roles around the world. Mario holds a Masters of Journalism from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelors in Communications.

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Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne, Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford, NDP leader Andrea Horwath, Green leader Mike Schreiner

Ontario: Who Won and Why?

Exit polls suggest that Patrick Brown, even after the allegations that forced him to quit as leader, would have had a similar result as Ford.
ONTARIO 2018
Analysis, Politics | June 8th 2018

How do Canadians feel about the justice system?

Four months before the not-guilty verdict in the killing of Colten Boushie ignited concern across Canada, a poll by Insights West indicated that half of Canadians believe the justice system has not done enough to address bias against Aboriginal Canadians.
Analysis, Politics | February 16th 2018

Poll reveals Canadians' view of residential schools

​“Instead of the isolation and neglect of the past, a free and equal chance with children in urban centres.” This is the voice of a male narrator in a March 1955 CBC television piece about Canada’s residential schools. Since that piece aired more than six decades ago, the way Canadians look at residential schools has changed.
Analysis, Politics, Culture | November 23rd 2017
Christy Clark, BC Liberals, confidence vote, Government House, legislature

Clark’s credibility craters echoing her predecessor’s final days as premier

The outgoing B.C. premier became the political equivalent of what American swimmer Ryan Lochte now evokes in international sport.
Analysis, Politics | July 6th 2017

Minority is no minor matter for British Columbians

For the third time in just over two years, a long standing political dynasty has floundered.
B.C. Elections 2017
Opinion, Politics | May 15th 2017
B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark, second left, poses for a selfie with a member of a Sikh motorcycle club during a Vaisakhi event at the Khalsa Diwan Society Sikh Temple in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday, April 15, 2017.

In the 'Wild West' of political donations, corporations rule, voters say

Only 50 per cent of British Columbians think citizens are influential in shaping policy. Corporations are regarded as the most influential group.
B.C. Elections 2017
Opinion | April 29th 2017
Brad Trost, Pierre Lemieux, Tory leadership race, Conservative Party

Two Tories picked the wrong time to discuss abortion in Canada

As the Pope asks priests to absolve “those who have committed the sin of procured abortion,” two leadership hopefuls think it’s time to change existing guidelines.
Opinion, Politics | February 1st 2017
Stephen Harper, Conservative Convention, Tory, Calgary-Heritage, Vancouver

One year later… Do Canadians miss Stephen Harper?

When asked to provide an assessment of Harper’s time in Ottawa, Canadians are divided, writes pollster Mario Canseco.
Analysis, Politics | November 22nd 2016

Canadian pollster finds new troubles for Trump

A lot has been said and written about the American electorate. Here are some data-driven answers.
U.S. Presidential Election 2016
Analysis, US News | October 12th 2016
Donald Trump, Vicente Fox, Mexico, build a wall, GOP

What Trump doesn't realize he shares with this former Mexican president

To observe former Mexican president Vicente Fox now lecturing the American public on the dangers a “false prophet” is nothing short of satirical, writes West Coast pollster Mario Canseco.
U.S. Presidential Election 2016
Opinion, US News | August 3rd 2016
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