- Canadians are angry with Trump’s pricing threats and the 51st condition comments.
- In response, they abandon the American consumption brands in favor of alternatives manufactured locally.
- The largest retailer in the country said that Canadian product sales are up to two figures.
In response to pricing threats and comments from President Donald Trump on the adoption of the 158 -year -old nation as a 51st American state, Canadians resume their own economic populism.
“Each person I meet, they want help and advice on how they can buy more Canadian products, and we really try to do our best to help them,” said CEO by Loblaw Companies bank when calling the results of the company last month. Loblaw, which has several brands of grocery and pharmacy, is the largest retailer in Canada.
In a LinkedIn comment a week before the call, Bank said that sales of products prepared in Canada were two figures in the second week of February, especially in the sections of the grocery store, dairy products and buyers, because buyers were “already in a patriotic state of mind”.
The feeling goes far beyond the alleys of the grocery store.
“It’s a combination of we are injured and angry,” said Mike Moffatt, a former economic adviser from Justin Trudeau, in an interview with Scott Galloway published last week. “Oddly, we are actually more than we have gathered more as a country. I think we are less divided than we have probably been for a decade here.”
Moffatt noted that Canada depends much more on foreign trade than the United States, and than new prices – as well as all reprisal rates – would create a multitude of challenges in the supply chain and new price increases.
Trump said on Monday that Canada was “no more room” to avoid prices.
A client buys Canadian manufacturing maple syrup from the real Canadian superstore on March 3, 2025 in Toronto. Images Katherine Ky Cheng / Getty
Canadians do not give up words about what they feel and what they hope to accomplish with their next grocery race.
“I’m a little horrified. I’m very afraid,” a nurse who has lived her life in Business Insider Pearl Whamond, a nurse who lived in Montreal. She said that she had personally witnessed a wave of Canadian patriotism even in Quebec, a mainly French -speaking province which is generally not considered very patriotic.
“If Quebec is annoyed enough to become a nationalist and pilot the Canadian flag, something is really not going well,” she said.
Whamond is one of the many Canadians trying to boycott American companies in favor of Canadians. She said that her local Facebook groups are full of people asking for Canadian alternatives to specific products and brands.
Personally, she has not bought on Amazon for almost a month – despite her husband who previously called her as the “Reine Amazon” – and also avoids brands like McDonald’s and Walmart.
Another Canadian based in Alberta who asked to remain anonymous for fear of political outfits, told Bi that he had also tried to avoid buying American products, to opt for goods made in any other country but especially Canada when it is possible.
“Patriotism is definitely high,” he said. “I have the impression that we are in fact a united front as Canadians. We collectively reject the rhetoric of division which led to all this.”
Connor McDavid of famous Canada after scoring the winning goal of the match of the four nations championship match. Maddie Meyer / Getty Images
The renewed patriotism even spread on the ice in the last match of the hockey tournament against the four nations, which replaced the NHL star match otherwise asleep.
After the United States gave Canada a decisive defeat in its round match, Canada returned with a revenge in the final to win a sudden death victory in an equal extension with the Olympic Games or the Stanley Cup.
“You cannot take our country – and you cannot take our game,” posted Trudeau on X.
It is a mood that has more Canadians to reach Crown Royal on the Maker brand.
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