Crowdsourcing participants' trust in governments, public health authorities, businesses and others during the COVID-19 pandemicThe Daily, Statistics Canada, Released: 2020-06-26. "From May 26 to June 8, 2020, approximately 37,000 Canadians participated in our online questionnaire "Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians: Trust in others." Today, Statistics Canada is releasing these findings as part of a series of results based on this crowdsourcing initiative. Readers should note that, unlike other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada, crowdsourcing data are not collected under a design using probability based sampling. Therefore, caution should be exercised when interpreting the findings, and no inferences about the overall Canadian population should be made based on these results."
"Trust is an important aspect of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A collective effort involving broad and voluntary adherence to public health measures is required to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. This is predicated on trust—trust in elected officials and health authorities to lead the response, trust in other people to follow public health measures and be mindful of their community, and trust in businesses and organizations to protect the health of their employees and the public. A growing body of international research has documented the importance of trust in limiting the spread of the virus and in bolstering people's well-being through the pandemic."