Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living
This week the US imposed 50% tariffs on US$20bn (£15bn) of Canadian goods, and Mark Carney, the country’s prime minister, has vowed to match them “dollar for dollar” after the collapse of trade talks between the two countries last weekend. Donald Trump retaliated on Thursday by ordering the federal government to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Such actions have added fuel to a widespread boycott of US products and services by Canadians that began early last year in response to the president’s trade war and threats to annex his northern neighbour.
More than 3,500 people from across Canada shared with the Guardian via an online callout how they have made changes to their lives in response to the US administration’s political and economic stance. Many expressed deep anger and sadness, but remained resolute that this was now a new way of living.
Aren’t most farmers voting for team red? It’s easier to change whose produce I buy this weekend than it is to change my phone’s OS.
I have quit reddit, Instagram, Dropbox, and dropped down to a free tier of Google since the boycotts began though. It’s a work in progress to be rid of all commercial us tech.
Irrelevant, unlike inside the states there is not so much focus on the team blue/red nonsense. This is a trade war, between nations, that the us started. The producers in the states have been terrible anyways (and heavily subsidized). We don’t need or want your shitty food, its one of if not the easiest thing to walk away from.
Oh and please keep in mind that this stupid trade war also has a lot to do with the us trying to force their terrible cheap milk and meat on Canadians. So yeah, why would we pick on those poor farmers…
Maybe you meant to comment on the parent comment? 🤔
I’m 🍁, not kkk.
Still putting forward the same frustrating points as those usa prone are on about. Not on you, we are under constant bullshit after all. We are well past the point of red vs blue, and any Canadian who still thinks that distinction matters is likely drinking too much american koolade.
But yeah, your are right that changing buying habits on food is easy vs phone software. Here is hoping the world plops out a non us solution.
Yeah, fair.
US here, yes. The Ag industry is heavily Republican and you can tell it by all the handouts they keep getting from them. They’re also a bunch of millionaires who cry the second anything goes sideways then comes out better. The mom & pop farms that people think of are almost nonexistent, especially after the last time the republicans convinced them to do a farmers strike decades ago, which lost a lot of small farms to big corporations.