‘While the tariffs are on, I’m going to boycott American products,’ says Ottawa shopper
Canadians have begun organizing efforts of their own to counteract U.S. tariffs imposed Saturday by President Donald Trump, with some heeding calls by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who quickly announced retaliatory levies against the U.S., to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. goods as much as possible.
Giancarlo Trimarchi, past-chair of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers and president of Vince’s Market in Sharon, Ont., said he has begun creating “Made in Canada” tags to be placed alongside Canadian products at supermarkets.
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Trimarchi’s tags could come in handy for some shoppers in Ontario who told CBC News they plan on only buying Canadian.
“Whatever is labelled Canadian, it’s going to be [the] choice for me, even if it’s not a preference,” Don Profit, who calls the tariffs an “economic attack” by Trump, told CBC News at an Ottawa supermarket.
Even if the tariffs are paused for a month, he’ll constantly use this as a threat now. If not saying again that we should be the 51st state.
I was already avoiding travelling to the U.S., now I’ll make sure I also avoid their products.
Even if there’s no tariffs, the U.S. has proven to be an unreliable “friend” and we should continue to diversify away from them. With friends like that, you don’t need enemies.
I’ve already said this somewhere else, but I also want to avoid American products, as an American. Corporate America is responsible for basically all this bs imo
Most obvious and quite easy is to pirate movies and tv shows instead of paying apple, Netflix, Disney and Amazon.
I always limited my streaming services to 1-3, now I’m down to 1 and probably going to turf that in the coming days as well…
I avoided American products during the first Trump term, and started buying them again after Biden was elected.
This time, though, I am not going back, even if American voters somehow manage to put adults back in charge in the next 2-4 years. Trump has destroyed the USA’s relationship with Canada, and that can’t be repaired if there’s even a shred of a chance this could happen again.
Good for you Canada. We (the US) are currently not worth your time.
Yep I won’t be buying another American ANYTHING for a long time.
What’s surprising is that we didn’t have these labels before.
I always got excited when I saw Canadian made fruits or something like that, why not buy local?
“Some”?
Yup, doing my part to replace as many American products with Canadian equivalents.
If that’s not an option, then I’ll deliberately reduce my consumption of those American products.
People can also buy the best quality product that they enjoy, whether it is import or domestic, instead of buying lesser quality regardless of where something is made or produced. If someone choose to buy import because it is made better, then they can. If the best quality is domestic, then buy that. Personal preference.
Yeesh. Read the room, Rav.
A short spin through their history shows they’ve got less than 10 comments with votes in the positive. They have a pattern of troll, and based on some of the content of their comments, possibly a Tankie’s alt.
Lol.
