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Dan Arnold
LPC research apparatus 2015–2025: Dan Arnold ran it from Pollara, then from inside PMO, then back to Pollara/PoliScience.. Dan Arnold runs PoliScience Inc..
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LPC research apparatus 2015–2025: Dan Arnold ran it from Pollara, then from inside PMO, then back to Pollara/PoliScience.
Dan Arnold runs PoliScience Inc.
Dan Arnold is Chief Strategy Officer at Pollara Strategic Insights.
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These are things people say about Dan Arnold that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
Disputed
"Arnold's role at Pollara is partisan-flavored"
Asserted by Dan Arnold · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"The Trudeau-era PMO Director of Research & Advertising returned to Pollara"
Unattributed assertion · stance: neutral
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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Disputed
"The same person who spent six years running federal POR for 'Canada's largest marketer — the Government of Canada' went directly back to a polling firm that publishes media polls describing Canadian politics, and simultaneously runs a partisan polling firm for the same political party that just employed him."
Unattributed assertion · stance: critical
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"Pollara / PoliScience is a partisan-political arm."
Asserted by Dan Arnold · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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Timeline see standalone →
2022
2022-01
Dan Arnold became Chief Strategy Officer at Pollara Strategic Insights
2022-01
Arnold's role at Pollara announced
2026
2026-03
Global News reporting on PCO crime polling
2022
January 2022
Dan Arnold's appointment
2025
late 2025
Pollara Substack launched