Some of you may not be aware that when Trump launched his trade war on Canada there has been a huge rebellion in Canada on travelling to the U.S. and buying U.S, products here. Some I know are disposing of their US real estate and refusing to travel through the US to countries elsewhere. Usually inconvenient but nevertheless adhered to.
Canada is not a flag-waving country nor into the jingoism that characterises some countries. But there's a fierce patriotism nevertheless.
I feel for my dear US friends who suffer from this embargo but they understand our rage. Tourism and exports have been massively affected in the US. Hotels and inns are shuttering and other businesses (Liquor, farms, etc.) similarly affected.
We are their biggest trading partner and it must hurt.
Meanwhile our prime minister is trotting around completing trade agreements with other countries.
I offer you this:
Ketchup made in Canada. Goodbye Heinz.
And these heavenly biscuits (cookies) made in Australia. Real chocolate, organic. Note most US"chocolate" is actually "chocolate flavoured" whatever the hell that is.
I've never seen those Australian biscuits here, or even the manufactures name. I will look them up.
ReplyDeleteThere are quite a number of YouTube clips around that point out the disaster that is happening in US so far as travellers go, along with farmers etc.
DeleteThey might be made in Oz just for export Andrew? French also on the label as required by Canadian law. But they are scrumptious.
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I agree they might just be for export. The ones I buy and eat here are never double chocolate, mostly cappucino or hazelnut flavours. And I think not called Quadratinis either.
DeleteYour rage is certainly understandable -- and appropriate. Many, probably most of us in the US, feel it, too. I live in a county that voted 80% for the current president, and yet most people here are good and caring. It seems to be that they have gotten their information from one place, while others of us have completely different news. That, and the world has changed so quickly that "olden times" may look like better times, depending on privilege. Those are the only explanations I can put forth, and surely are partial ones. Maybe things are about to change for the better in the US; I hope so.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping so too with the release of these falls and hopefully his impeachment. Canada and US were always, until the orange one, the best of friends and trade partners but once he threatened those tariffs and threatening us with being the 51st state, it was game over.
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See if you can find Tim Tams in the Australian cookie section. You will swoon with delight. I am exactly in your camp. We resist all things American. We check religiously whether the items we are buying are Canadian or sourced from a friendly country. Our motto is ABUS - anywhere but the US. As for travel there, we have not visited since 2012. The Sandy Hook massacre was the tipping point for us. I doubt that anything that might happen in the future would change our posture now, and the other members of my family exercise the same embargo too. One cannot overlook the simple fact that Trump was elected in a free and fair election with 78 million people voting for him, knowing full well that he had fascist leanings and promised retribution, was a convicted felon and a serial liar. And now people feign astonishment? Best CANADIAN wishes David xo
ReplyDeleteGood to hear David. I haven't visited the USA since I was pulled over by thugs at Homeland Security in New York. I wrote about it here: https://wisewebwoman.blogspot.com/search?q=homeland+security . Yes, all those school shootings did my head in too. Sacrificing children, children!, for the right to bear any gun you want including AK47s and their ilk. It's barbaric. Electing the felon was no shock really. It seemed like a culmination of allowing Big Money into politics and "we the people" being thrown in the dustbin of history. Oligarchy had arrived. Inevitable. I grieve for my good friends in the USA who would do anything to move here or to Europe but age and finances hold them in place in fear for worse to come. It's terrible. There are so many decent people in the states who see it as we do up here and cheer us on.
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TimTams come in a range of flavours, but NOT the only flavour I liked. It was a triple choc, vanilla, coffee biscuit (cookie) and only available for that one season. All other TimTams are very very sweet.
DeleteI have seen those biscuits and thought they were European!
ReplyDeleteSmall actions taken enough times add up, hang in there!
It is adding up. The US economy is down billions and billions from the Canadian trade and tourism embargo. Serious stuff.
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Good for you! I just read that blog post, in 2011 no less! Obama was supposed to be the good guy. Anyway, a lot of us in the U.S. are rooting for your boycotts.
ReplyDeleteI love those Quadratinis! The cartoon is funny, but in truth I would not like a box of Epstein Files in place of the Christmas ham or turkey
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