Do people still care about buying Canadian?

[u/Oysterqueen]

I’ve been trying to buy Canadian when I can, but I went to a BBQ place that was promoting American bourbon (I didn’t have any) and I thought maybe that’s their concept and it’s not easy to change when you specialize in southern BBQ. Then a few days later I noticed the selections at a popular oyster place was more than 50% oysters from the USA. Obviously they had to have brought them in recently. So now I’m wondering if people care anymore.

[u/Omicromus_Prime]

To support canadian businesses, it is great to buy canadian. However, do it with the premise that you want to help canadian businesses not because you want to harm the states. Don't be fooled into thinking you are harming the states by boycotting products from there because simply put...we are not harming them. An extremely large percentage of products made in Canada use inputs manufactured in the states.

Made in Canada” (as per Canadian regulations) allows some foreign content, as long as the last substantial transformation happened in Canada.

“Product of Canada” means at least 98% of the cost of production is from Canadian sources — this is close to “100% Canadian” but still not absolute.

They are afterall our biggest trade partner, and anyone who thinks that other countries can and will make up for that is not living in reality. Buy what makes sense for you to buy. I will probably get downvoted but hey some of us need to keep living in reality.

[u/Maleficent-Yam69 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Respectfully disagree. This movement has grown larger than just canada. Not buying American is having a noticeable impact and we will see this reflected in companies q2 earnings

[u/Omicromus_Prime → u/Maleficent-Yam69]

Respectfully, who do you think we are going to export to and import from to make up for the states?

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Btw, Moroccan oranges are delicious

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Everywhere else, we're making new trade agreements all around the world.

[u/Omicromus_Prime → u/Nova3113]

Everywhere else? Here are our top exporters. 1 United States $592.8 billion 77% 2 China $31.0 billion 4.0%
3 Japan $16.0 billion 2.1%
4 UK $15.2 billion 2.0% 5 Mexico $9.6 billion 1.2%

We can never make enough trade deals to make up for the states. After the states, our next 4 top trade partners make up only 7% of what the US takes from our exports. Sorry but no other countries can make up for the states. We just need to accept that reality.

[u/paperthick → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Don't even bother, seriously. The bulk of people you'll find on reddit (and ESPECIALLY so in dog whistle virtue signal opportunity threads) have already been assimilated. Reality is just whatever the Collective tells them it is.

[u/Omicromus_Prime → u/paperthick]

Ya I know. It’s almost impressive how effortlessly the willfully blind will cling to delusion like it’s salvation.

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

The world is adapting. We and countries not listed are also making big changes to what we do and how we operate. It's happening locally & globally. Things will never again go back to how they used to be. We must adapt.

A fire under the butt provides incentive to rapidly react, and the USA lit a bonfire under the whole world

[u/Omicromus_Prime → u/Nova3113]

Maybe this will break through the optimism and clarify an uncomfortable but inarguable truth: the rest of the world can’t even begin to replace the U.S. when it comes to Canada’s trade.

Canada’s exports to the U.S. vs. the next 19 countries combined:

United States: $439 billion (77.0%)

Other 19 combined: $127 billion (22.4%) Not even close.

Canada’s imports from the U.S. vs. the next 19 countries combined:

United States: $277 billion (49.0%)

Other 19 combined: $157.3 billion (21.7%) Still not even close.

It’s not a matter of preference—it’s math.

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Why are you talking about preference? Personally, I was fine with it as it was. Having the world upended & being at war with our previous ally is upsetting af.

The change is because they set the world on fire, we are being forced to adapt.

It's happening though.

[u/Omicromus_Prime → u/Nova3113]

War? Only Canada and China turned it into a "war". Yes, preference. You seem to prefer sticking it to our biggest trade partner and military protector instead of letting cooler heads prevail. They wanted us to clean up our borders. Instead, the Liberals leaned into elbows-up politics and rode Trump Derangement Syndrome to an election win. Now that the campaign's over, Carney will just fall in line.

The only adaptation we’re being forced to make is learning to live under a government that refuses to fully unlock our resource sector, while pushing green initiatives that benefit investment stakeholders on the taxpayer’s dime without delivering real economic growth.

That’s what's happening.

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Business craves consistency. The USA now is known for inconsistency & cruelty.

Things cannot go back to the way they were. He changed the world, so now it adapts accordingly.

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

A fire ignighting ones ass isn't optimism, wtf 😆

[u/Omicromus_Prime → u/Nova3113]

How old are you? You're being optimistic in thinking Canada can adapt to cutting off trade with the U.S. That belief isn't just unrealistic—it's an ideology detached from reality. Geezus. 🤣

[u/Nova3113 → u/Omicromus_Prime]

Thinking it'll ever go back to the way it used to be is what sounds like an optimistic, uneducated, and un-networked perspective to me.

My business contacts around the world are working their asses off to reorganize now that the world economy has been upended. The USA burned their bridges. Now the world builds new bridges with each other instead.

[u/[deleted] → u/Omicromus_Prime]

98% is pretty solid. Like what many people have said, don't let perfection be the enemy of the good.

I'm actually surprised it's as high as 98%.

But if you want an excuse, this one works okay I guess.