Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is still unknown to three-quarters of Canadians, just as he was in 2014, says a new survey by the Angus Reid Institute.

Modi, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Michel Temer are the three leaders’unknown to most Canadians, said the survey, that was released as leaders of the G7

nations meet in Charlevoix, Quebec this week.

United States President Donald Trump provokes the most negative views – widely described as “corrupt”, “arrogant,” and a “liar” – others, such as British Prime Minister Teresa May,

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron figure much more positively in the Canadian consciousness.

Trump is joined in the Canadian public opinion dog house by another major world leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin, kicked out of what used to be the G8 in 2014, is most commonly described as “corrupt”.

At home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau garners a mix of positive and negative descriptors from the Canadian public that elected him. He is seen as “charismatic” and “compassionate,” but also “weak,” “arrogant,” and “bumbling.”

Key Findings:

• Those leaders who were in power in 2014 – including Merkel, Putin, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping – tend to be described in the same terms today as they were then

• Trudeau’s mix of positive and negative terms is a slightly better overall assessment than then Prime Minister Stephen Harper received in 2014. Canadians saw Harper as “secretive,’ “arrogant,” “dishonest,” “strategic” and “boring”

• More than half of Canadians are unfamiliar with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (64% say they don’t know who this is), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (75%), or Brazilian President Michel Temer (90%).