{"id":136056,"date":"2025-05-03T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/my-sacrifice-canadians-boycott-us-products-as-trump-feeds-buy-canada-surge-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:06:59","slug":"my-sacrifice-canadians-boycott-us-products-as-trump-feeds-buy-canada-surge-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/my-sacrifice-canadians-boycott-us-products-as-trump-feeds-buy-canada-surge-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"'My sacrifice': Canadians boycott US products as Trump feeds 'Buy Canada' surge – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2212 At the Madison Avenue Pub, American liquor is no longer for sale.
The popular neighborhood Toronto bar, inside a brick Victorian building blocks from the University of Toronto\u2019s campus, is replete with billiards tables and a full rack of liquor. A sign outside advertises Tuesday night trivia and another inside reads, \u201cA good selection of beers from around the globe.\u201d
Almost.
Since President Donald Trump<\/a> set Canada in his sights, one country is conspicuously off the menu.
\u201cIt’s not acceptable. You want to put your tariffs on, go do whatever you want to do, but don’t threaten and don’t humiliate people,\u201d said Chris Haslett, the bar\u2019s director of operations.
The pub’s boycott of American booze is \u201cpersonal,\u201d he said.
Trump\u2019s branding of Canada<\/a> as the \u201c51st state\u201d and the wide-reaching tariffs he has threatened to impose<\/a> have pushed infuriated Canadians to boycott American products and inspired<\/a> a \u201cBuy Canada\u201d movement that could take a toll on the U.S. economy.
On April 28, Canadian voters elected Mark Carney<\/a> as prime minister in a race defined by anger at Trump<\/a>. Carney’s Liberal Party rode the unprecedented surge of Canadian patriotism to close a 24-point gap behind the Conservative Party \u2212 and its Elon Musk<\/a>-endorsed leader \u2212 to win a plurality in Parliament.
After Trump\u2019s 25% tariff on across-the-board<\/a> Canadian and Mexican imports took effect on March 4, Canada rushed to retaliate. Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly announced<\/a> a 25% tariff on $155 billion on U.S. imports. American liquor, wine and beer was pulled from Canadian shelves<\/a>.
As the stock market tumbled, Trump reneged on the tariffs<\/a> days later. But tariffs on steel, aluminum and cars have remained.
Canadians, stunned at the economic and rhetorical beating from a country they once viewed as like family, are avoiding their former favorite American products.
Loblaws, a Canadian grocery chain with more than 2,400 locations, is tagging Canadian goods throughout stores with a maple leaf. After Trump\u2019s threats in early March, it announced<\/a> it would label any goods subject to a tariff with a black “T” symbol.
\u201cI have to buy juice that I don\u2019t like as much. That\u2019s my sacrifice,\u201d Jane Gibson, 80, said outside a Loblaws in central Toronto.
Her motivation \u2013 Trump\u2019s unprecedented threats to make Canada the \u201c51st state.\u201d
\u201cIt’s not going to happen,” she said. “I’ll go to the border with a pitchfork.\u201d
\u201cWe’re all going to hunker down and we’re going to try to stand together as Canadians, to try to keep our own economy strong without having to rely on America,\u201d said Peter Sweeney, 51.
\u201cWe want to try to show them that we can get by without them,\u201d he said.
The impact of Canadians turning to homegrown goods could add around 10 billion Canadian dollars to the country\u2019s economy and hike its GDP by around 0.3 percentage points, according to research from Robert Kavcic<\/a>, director of economics at BMO Capital Markets.
\u201cFrom a Canadian perspective, it’s pretty meaningful,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn’t offset the actual impact of the trade war, but it does add a little bit of stimulus to the Canadian economy.\u201d
After Trump’s whiplash on tariffs in recent months, the full scope of the economic impact on Canada is not yet clear. A 25% tariff on all its exports to the U.S. could sink Canada’s GDP by 1.3 percentage points<\/a> by 2027, a Peterson Institute for International Economics analysis found.
U.S. industries are already feeling a cold wind from up north.
Canadian provinces and stores choosing not to stock up on American liquor is \u201cworse than a tariff,\u201d Lawson Whiting, CEO of Brown-Forman, which makes Jack Daniels, said on an earnings call<\/a> last month amid the tariff scare.
The U.S. tourism industry could take an especially hard hit as Canadians give up their regular vacations south of the border<\/a>.
Andrea Penhale, of Courtice, a town around 35 miles east of Toronto, said Trump had upended her annual visit to see her sister, who lives in Tennessee and holds a green card.
“It’s too scary,” she said.
Cross-border car trips between the U.S. and Canada were down around 30% year over year, according to Kavcic’s research. Airline bookings over the spring and summer are down as much as 30%, he said.
Some data put the number<\/a> even higher \u2013 bookings for flights through the end of September are down by more than 70% every month, aviation data firm OAG found.
Haslett said he recently canceled a trip he takes a couple times a year to Nashville, accepting the loss of several hundred dollars he had already spent on the vacation to backstop his boycott.
\u201cI will not go down for four years,\u201d he said.
Amid difficult times, Canadians said, they were confident that they could redirect trade internally and to new international partners. On the campaign trail, both Prime Minister Carney<\/a> and his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre<\/a> promised to free up trade between provinces to relieve the impacts of U.S. tariffs.
Canadians say boycotts of U.S. products have made them more savvy consumers. At the Madison Avenue Pub, necessity became the mother of invention, as staff searched for ways to make popular American-made ingredients themselves.
Haslett said the bar had invented its own sour puss raspberry, a fruity liqueur made only in the U.S. “I tasked someone to figure out how to make it, and they did,” he said.
“I do believe that Canadians will find a way to be resilient here, and we will figure out a way to buy and sell products to one another and to other people in the world,” said Sweeney. “We’re resourceful. We always have been.”<\/p>\n

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