‘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.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    18·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      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

  • BenVimes@lemmy.ca
    23·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    10·
    2 days ago

    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.