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Stop buying American goods after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

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Rainingalldayonmyhead · 02/02/2025 09:23

Stop buying American goods after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

He says it’s because of phen and illegal immigration - less than 1% come from Canada.

This will have significant implications for the Canadian economy, the American economy and by domino the world. Not to mention the fact it could start a significant trade war.

The US doesn’t subsidise Canada - they buy Canadian goods. Approx 40% of their crude oil comes from Canada for example.

There is also an agreed trade deal between the US/Canada and Mexico that Trump agreed to and signed in his first years in office.

YABU - it doesn’t matter to me
YANBU - let’s stand up to a bully and support our allies

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CanadaNotAMum · 03/02/2025 02:18

NattyTurtle59 · 03/02/2025 01:56

I'm not in the UK but am struggling to think of any American made goods I could stop buying. I can't imagine there are lots in the UK either?

Oh, maybe the odd bit of fruit?

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Instead of just thinking where a good is made, consider where the money goes from the purchase. An iPhone might not be made in the US, but Apple is a US company and and that’s where the profits go. Same with anything sold on Amazon. Tge parent company is in the US.

NattyTurtle59 · 03/02/2025 02:07

GreenTeaLikesMe · 03/02/2025 02:06

Amazon is the best target. It’s also a horrid company in general and encourages wasteful spending, so a goof target for reducing as much as possible.

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I rarely buy from Amazon. Only the odd book or CD which I can't find anywhere else.

GreenTeaLikesMe · 03/02/2025 02:06

NattyTurtle59 · 03/02/2025 01:56

I'm not in the UK but am struggling to think of any American made goods I could stop buying. I can't imagine there are lots in the UK either?

Oh, maybe the odd bit of fruit?

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Amazon is the best target. It’s also a horrid company in general and encourages wasteful spending, so a goof target for reducing as much as possible.

NattyTurtle59 · 03/02/2025 01:56

I'm not in the UK but am struggling to think of any American made goods I could stop buying. I can't imagine there are lots in the UK either?

Oh, maybe the odd bit of fruit?

neverthelastone · 03/02/2025 01:16

good article on the tariff situation in The Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/price-america-trump-tariffs/681546/

saltinesandcoffeecups · 03/02/2025 01:00

Rainingalldayonmyhead · 02/02/2025 21:18

Prime Minister Trudeau response to the tariffs. You may not like him but it was a great speech.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLB46AR_O94

Yeah call me crazy but I hold the opinion of someone who dresses in blackface for fun in very little regard.

JHound · 03/02/2025 00:58

The Orange Man is batshit crazy. That’s all I have to say.

RocketNan · 03/02/2025 00:57

Visiting Canada in the summer: had also planned a trip to the US whilst we are there (Vancouver - Seattle). Now planning to stay in Canada.

echt · 03/02/2025 00:36

My small contribution has been never to buy foreign fresh produce (often US) when the Aussie stuff is out of season and never have since I moved here. NZ don't count as foreign in my book. Having said that, so much Aussie farmland has been bought up by China the whole thing is becoming a moot point.

I don't do the fast food places because I don't like the food so no moral high ground for me there.

whydoihavetowork · 03/02/2025 00:09

@Rainingalldayonmyhead wines yes. Most of the beers are made here under license via InBev.

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Rainingalldayonmyhead · 03/02/2025 00:04

Porridgewithoats · 03/02/2025 00:02

I can't think what I buy that's from the U.S., apart from having a phone and a computer and using Google etc. that come on those.

I've always boycotted Starbucks, Macdonald's, Coca Cola, etc. for ethical reasons anyway (as have most people in my immediate friends and family).

Admittedly I did once give in to DC whining for sweets from one of those new places in Oxford St, but when I pointed out that the U.S. sweets probably aren't vegetarian and don't have high food safetyvstandards, they agreed to pop to the newsagents instead!

I did watch Netflix when someone shared their subscription with us during lockdowns.

Maybe shoes?

Alcohol is a good one if you drink.

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OneLemonDog · 03/02/2025 00:03

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 23:50

The UK government weren't murdering the stolen children of indigenous people on our own soil in a genocidal fashion right up until the 1990's though.
And everyone believes only the Germany government was evil.

Not deflecting - just reflecting on just how horrifically violent the Canadian government has been and how I therefore don't feel any empathy about the tariff situation.

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Most of the horrors of the residential schools occurred before Canada became independent from the UK....

Porridgewithoats · 03/02/2025 00:02

I can't think what I buy that's from the U.S., apart from having a phone and a computer and using Google etc. that come on those.

I've always boycotted Starbucks, Macdonald's, Coca Cola, etc. for ethical reasons anyway (as have most people in my immediate friends and family).

Admittedly I did once give in to DC whining for sweets from one of those new places in Oxford St, but when I pointed out that the U.S. sweets probably aren't vegetarian and don't have high food safetyvstandards, they agreed to pop to the newsagents instead!

I did watch Netflix when someone shared their subscription with us during lockdowns.

Maybe shoes?

OneLemonDog · 03/02/2025 00:01

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 23:51

People should be prosecuted and imprisoned for murdering these children.

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Most of the perpetrators are long dead (most of the deaths are believed to have occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century).

There have, though, been about 50 convictions from more recent abuses in those schools.

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 23:51

OneLemonDog · 02/02/2025 23:43

What do you think there remains to come clean about? Atrocities were indeed committed, have been acknowledged and apologized for and A LOT of work has gone into reconciliation with First Nations communities (and that work will be ongoing).

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People should be prosecuted and imprisoned for murdering these children.

MrBatesWalkingStick · 02/02/2025 23:51

cakeorwine · 02/02/2025 10:29

Who is really running the US at the moment?

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Lunatics?

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 23:50

Rainingalldayonmyhead · 02/02/2025 23:38

Only that it was a shitty deflection. Otherwise I’m fine thank you. As I said the British Empire wasn’t perfect either so do you care about tariffs being applied into the UK then? It’s your same argument turned to you but instead of answering you decided to poke. Interesting response.

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The UK government weren't murdering the stolen children of indigenous people on our own soil in a genocidal fashion right up until the 1990's though.
And everyone believes only the Germany government was evil.

Not deflecting - just reflecting on just how horrifically violent the Canadian government has been and how I therefore don't feel any empathy about the tariff situation.

OneLemonDog · 02/02/2025 23:43

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 22:47

Until the Canadian Government admit to the atrocities committed against indigenous people, right up to current times, and come clean about the boarding school murders and prosecute all those implicit in the taking, murdering and hiding of children, I don't give a toss what tariffs are places on their country.

What do you think there remains to come clean about? Atrocities were indeed committed, have been acknowledged and apologized for and A LOT of work has gone into reconciliation with First Nations communities (and that work will be ongoing).

MrBatesWalkingStick · 02/02/2025 23:41

Floppyzebra · 02/02/2025 09:55

He has to have a hard line to stop illegal immigration so I'm fine with it.

Even Pateley Bridge, Nidderdale in the North Yorkshire dales has one of these shops. It looked so odd there, tucked into the high street full of quaint little olde worlde establishments.

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Rainingalldayonmyhead · 02/02/2025 23:38

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 23:31

Touched a nerve

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Only that it was a shitty deflection. Otherwise I’m fine thank you. As I said the British Empire wasn’t perfect either so do you care about tariffs being applied into the UK then? It’s your same argument turned to you but instead of answering you decided to poke. Interesting response.

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ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 23:31

Rainingalldayonmyhead · 02/02/2025 23:27

Umm yeah they have. Many, many, many times. Official government document published online after giving a speech as such below. What happened was wrong wrong wrong, but you specifically say you want an apology and there was one. More than one. This also has absolutely nothing to do with the US applying tariffs.

I don’t agree with your point of pointing out something that Canada has done wrong in the past to somehow justify what is happening that has nothing to do with that wrong now. That’s a pretty shitty deflecting argument.

Maybe start with this one….

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1571589171655

And just a question - since the British empire isn’t exactly lily white on these issues do you give a toss about tariffs that may be imposed on your own country?

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Touched a nerve

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Rainingalldayonmyhead · 02/02/2025 23:27

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/02/2025 22:47

Until the Canadian Government admit to the atrocities committed against indigenous people, right up to current times, and come clean about the boarding school murders and prosecute all those implicit in the taking, murdering and hiding of children, I don't give a toss what tariffs are places on their country.

Umm yeah they have. Many, many, many times. Official government document published online after giving a speech as such below. What happened was wrong wrong wrong, but you specifically say you want an apology and there was one. More than one. This also has absolutely nothing to do with the US applying tariffs.

I don’t agree with your point of pointing out something that Canada has done wrong in the past to somehow justify what is happening that has nothing to do with that wrong now. That’s a pretty shitty deflecting argument.

Maybe start with this one….

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1571589171655

And just a question - since the British empire isn’t exactly lily white on these issues do you give a toss about tariffs that may be imposed on your own country?

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Phthia · 02/02/2025 23:22

Upstartled · 02/02/2025 09:30

No, thanks. It doesn't matter to me.

How about when it spreads to goods the UK produces?

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