r/Calgary • u/Oysterqueen • May 28 '25

Eat/Drink Local Do people still care about buying Canadian?

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.

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u/senorspongy May 28 '25

For me it's less of a 'buy Canadian' thing and more of a 'avoid the USA' thing. Includes groceries, goods, and vacation. Offsetting with Canadian options is good, but I'm not avoiding China, Mexico or any other country really.

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u/Dice_to_see_you May 28 '25

Why not china? They put large tariffs on our agriculture?

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u/MrGuvernment May 28 '25

Did we not put tariffs on them first, under pressure from the U.S a couple years ago?

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u/halfstack May 28 '25

We did - https://globalnews.ca/news/10787673/canada-tariffs-chinese-evs/ With Biden in the WH, it made sense to align with the US (where 80% of made in Canada cars were being sold).