Four in five Canadians say the United States is on the wrong track, according to a survey released on Sunday by Abacus Data.

The survey revealed that only 14% of Canadians believed that the US is moving in the right direction.

Meanwhile, 47% of Canadians said their own country is headed in the right direction, while 39% said it is on the wrong track.

The contrast between perceptions of Canada and perceptions of the world has widened steadily since Donald Trump returned to the White House and since Mark Carney became Canadian prime minister, according to the survey.

"Public opinion today is being shaped less by domestic exhaustion and more by external anxiety," said David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data.

Coletto noted that while Canadians remain deeply worried about affordability and economic uncertainty, they are increasingly attributing these pressures to external forces, such as Trump, instability in the United States, and broader global volatility rather than blaming the federal government directly.

A total of 59% approved of the job the Canadian federal government is doing and just 27% disapproved. This is the highest approval rating for the federal government with the next highest record at 57% in August 2016 for the Trudeau government, the survey showed.