Well no one’s buying them so why would they stock them? Had to go buy a bunch of new screwdrivers and normally I get Klein. Nope! Picked my up some nice Wera and won’t be looking back.
I mean it’s not necessarily the retailers. It’s Canadians themselves who aren’t buying them. If I read “états unis” on a product I will look for an alternative or go without.
Exactly. Same here 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
Can’t blame Canada one bit. They have to put their own interests first.
I wonder if it’s dawning on any Trumpers here in America that they’ve made a profoundly bad call. I’m guessing probably not. They may only have an inkling of this harsh reality when it hits their wallets like a freight train. But even then it will always be someone else’s fault (liberals, Democrats, foreign nations, etc).
Are we winning yet??
They don’t really have the brain cells to self reflect. It’s like asking a vampire to look in the mirror.
I’ve seen some waking up but not most.
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I got a survey from Google Opinion Rewards today asking if I was participating in the Buy Canadian movement. When I said yes, the next question was how much of a price increase would I accept in order to keep my convictions. I said 50%, but I really should have said higher.
I earned $0.16 for my answer and now I feel dirty.
Trump on Monday… “Canadian tarriffs now 55%!”
If he was smart and coy he’d do 51% for the 51st parallel where Canada is or if he wanted to he’d make it 100% for the 100th Meridian “where the great plains begin” lol
I’m in the US. I’ve stopped getting stuff made in the red states (sadly Evan Williams that I love as well). Cut off Amazon and Target. The list is huge. It’s a process unfortunately. But I’m buying Canadian where I can. Especially that sweet syrup. Love you guys.
“That’s the kind of disruption we would never expect,” said Hung. “I never heard of this happening until now. It’s definitely quite a bit of headwinds."
This is exactly the reason we have to affect blue states like CA/WA/NY/MA just like red states with our dollar. So many people and companies still have their head in the sand and don’t realize the Trump rhetoric is a real threat to Canada and more than just trolling. They don’t really become aware of it until it actually affects them and that’s not limited to Republicans.
The people in the blue states are afraid for their lives.
This isn’t a situation where the people in the blue states need to be aware of the danger Trump poses to Canadians and the problems he poses for Canada and need to be made aware of it.
The people in the blue states are unable to afford much of anything now, not food, not healthcare, not housing, not transportation, nothing. And on top of that, they’re afraid of being disappeared because the Trump regime is disappearing people for no cause, because of things like having an autism awareness tattoo or like publishing a letter.
It’s not to say that what Canada is facing from Trump isn’t bad, but no, people in the blue states are MORE aware of the dangers of Trump than you are. Canadians are justified in reacting, absolutely, but people in the U.S. in blue states are not unaware of what’s going on, and don’t need Canadians to make them aware of these things.
I’m sorry to hear what the blue residents are going through; and I’m sorry that I overlooked their situation over the last few weeks as I worried about ours here.
In my house, a short ways north of the border, we’ve been talking, lightly, about what-ifs. We never even planned around the refugee situation even before Mr Trump tries a sham war to deny the vote.
I feel there’s gonna be a lot of people ‘lost’ on their way through to Nome. I hope they’re careful and they have plans too. And I sure as hell hope those contingency plans never become necessary; and we can all laugh - ha ha haaaa ha ha - about it later.
We’re not even 90 days in and we’re planning for situations not seen here in 200 years.
Canadian here… i don’t give a damn about what the blue states are experiencing… They are free to leave the US and stop empowering our enemy with their taxes. I can guarantee, should trump decide to invade Canada, the blue states won’t do shit. When we retaliate in self-defence, we’ll retaliate against the entire murica, white, blue and red.
They are free to leave the US and stop empowering our enemy with their taxes.
Oh you think so, hmm?
You think that a lot of us haven’t been looking at every country that might be worthwhile, including spending years learning additional languages, researching our ancestry several generations deep to find countries where we might be able to get ancestry, applying for literally dozens to hundreds of jobs on literally all other continents, and even taking IELFS training and tests and looking at industry changes for jobs just to be able to get out?
It’s not as easy as you think. Even Canada and Mexico have strict requirements that a lot of the people in the U.S. can’t meet.
Literally the closest comparison is the people who wanted to flee Nazi Germany.
Get some perspective. The people who you are complaining about are on the same side as you. We don’t want anything to happen to Canada, and if something does happen between the U.S. and Canada, we will be each other’s best hope.
Get some perspective. The people who you are complaining about are on the same side as you. We don’t want anything to happen to Canada, and if something does happen between the U.S. and Canada, we will be each other’s best hope.
I can guarantee americans won’t do shit if the US decided to attack Canada. There’s no Luigi among you.
I’m sorry to hear what the blue residents
I wouldn’t be, most of them stayed home on Election day to ‘punish’ Kamala.
They’re one of the biggest reasons for the turmoil in the world today, fuck 'em.
The election was won and lost in swing states. Voter turnout in swing states was roughly the same in 2024 and 2020.
Swing states win elections.
Yes, but we have to move past the “it can’t be that bad for my business” and the “don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Trump” excuses. Blue state residents have to actually stand up for their state and fellow residents against this administration. I’ve been impressed by some of the protests in LA in support of Mexico, but Sacramento, Olympia, Albany, Salem have a lot of legwork to do to protect itself from the Trump admin. Canadian actions are meant to spur individual Americans to action as well.
You can still buy Tabasco if you want. Louisiana is a red state but one of the McIlhenny heirs was a good dude. The peppers are grown in South and Central America and Avery Island (where the sauce is made) is mostly a wildlife refuge now. He only introduced one invasive species, which is pretty good for a rich guy in the 1800’s.
I get that there are many Americans and American companies that do great things. Hell, I still have a Costco membership because they treat their workers and customers really well for a large chain, and have demonstrably rejected the “anti-woke” movement.
But understand that if this keeps going on I’m not renewing it this year. This is because every dollar that goes to Washington DC through US federal taxes is metaphorical ammunition for Trump, to illegally threaten to withhold funding for refusing to go along with his demands.
Canadian Tire can probably take care of most of your CostCo needs. I don’t know if they sell hot dogs for CAD $1.50 but one assumes hot dogs aren’t all that important in the context of global trade.
Canadian Tire doesn’t sell groceries in bulk.
The only competition to Costco would be Real Canadian Superstore, but it’s a Loblaw company and they shrinkflated everything and have a meaningless membership program, and Walmart, which never really cared about going for the same margins.
It’s hard to replace CostCo in full but at least the founder threatened to murder the CEO if he ever raised the price on hot dogs. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/costco-founder-kill-hotdogs/
Sorry, I’ve moved on… 🇨🇦
I appreciate you proving you’re Canadian by starting with “sorry.” My apologies for my country being full of asshats.
Elbows up 🇨🇦
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About a year ago, there was a boycott on the Loblaws supermarket chain in protest of their boasting record profits at a time when grocery inflation was out of control. It lasted about a month before kind of fizzling out.
But I think by comparison, this buy Canadian movement has legs. It’s a major nationwide shift in people’s spending habits. And the key word here may be habits. Let’s say for argument’s sake that after 4 years of Trump, a new administration comes in and repeals all the tariffs. By that time, people will have settled into alternate brands across a wide range of consumer goods, and it may be difficult to convince them to switch back again. There’s a certain inertia in human behaviour. So the effects of this could potentially go on quite a bit longer than the tariff war.
Tariffs also have a way of sticking around long after the reason for their introduction is forgotten.
Shit, I’m American and I’m regionally boycotting things made in red states to the greatest degree I reasonably can.
Moved abroad and I tell everyone I can to boycott American. Doesn’t take alot of convincing!
Where’d you go?
You don’t say…
