I want to apologize to you guys. I’m sorry you’re forced to suffer for my country’s stupidity voting in this dipshit. You don’t deserve this.
I do love that your government is clapping back against the bully, because only terrible things follow when you appease fascists.
But it’s regular Canadians getting squeezed in the middle as a consequence. For both our sakes I hope this ends soon
I appreciate the sentiment, but please gather together with your friends and neighbors and fix your country’s shit.
No, I don’t have a step-by-step plan to give you, it’s your country, you should know better than me what’s effective where you live.
I feel the same way. On the one hand, there’s nobody else I’d rather have slap sense into us than one of our closest allies. But average Canadians don’t deserve to be wrapped up in our godawful drama. Here’s hoping they can hit us hard enough to get back on the right track sooner rather than later.
Disappointed to not see Tesla on the list. Target the oligarchs behind this.
Just immediately stop sending electricity and oil. At any price.
It would do less damage to the Canadian economy than these tariffs and be resolved a lot sooner.
Fuck me thats a long list. Here’s a summary in the order I found them. Probably missed a few, I’m on mobile and it’s Sunday…
- Meat.
- Eggs.
- Dairy products.
- Various fruit+veg.
- Beans.
- Nuts.
- Coffee.
- Tea.
- Various seasonings (vanilla, nutmeg, pepper, etc)
- Grain.
- Cooking oils.
- Sugar.
- Chocolate.
- Pasta.
- Alcohol. (wine+spirits)
- Tobacco.
- Sand.
- Perfume/Beauty products.
- Cleaning products.
- Appliances.
- Building materials.
- Misc housewares.
- Clothing.
- Linens (sheets, towels, drapery, curtains, etc)
- Diamonds.
- Silver.
- Platinum. (I didn’t see gold oddly, just gold plated silver)
- Jewelry.
- Hand/power tools.
- Industrial equipment/machinery.
- Firearms.
- Explosives.
- Light fittings/bulbs.
Video game consoles.- Casino game consoles
- Playing Cards.
- Paintings.
While it is an extensive list, none of those are things that we can’t get elsewhere, or that we don’t already make ourselves.
Or things that we can’t do without for a while.
Turkey. Turkey is a big one
- Various fruit+veg.
Stick with local produce. We grow a lot in Canada.
- Beans.
Nearly all the beans/legumes on store shelves are from Canada.
- Nuts.
This one is difficult, especially almonds. We do have a thriving seed industry: hemp, flax, etc.
- Coffee.
What coffee comes from the USA?? Canadian roasters are everywhere and they import beans from South America.
- Tea.
Same as above, get your tea from Japan, China, India, etc.
- Various seasonings (vanilla, nutmeg, pepper, etc)
Seasoning blends are very often from the states, but look for local blends. Or get single spices and make your own! Or go ethnic, and get spices from Asia, Mexico, etc.
- Grain.
Canada grows wheat, oats, wild rice, barley, rye, etc. No issues here. Get Asian rice if your worried about rice.
- Cooking oils.
We produce a lot of cooking oil in Canada. For olive oil (not really a cooking oil), go with Italian.
- Sugar.
China, Brazil, and India produce more than the US. We can get it from them.
- Chocolate.
Go with Swiss chocolate.
- Pasta.
Plenty of made in Canada pasta. Go with Italian if you want another option.
With the exception of citrus, some processed junk food, and a few odds and ends, Canada is quite food secure.
If animal products are a concern, stop eating them. Make tarrifs your excuse to go plant-based this year 👍
Just to note that American rice tends to have high levels of heavy metals. So even without tariffs you shouldn’t be buying American rice.
Video game consoles
Seems like this is limited to arcade machines and playing cards.
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Other games, operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of payment, other than automatic bowling alley equipment
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Playing cards
Fair. I was tired of scrolling on a touch screen by that point. Didn’t look too closely
It took me a few minutes to figure out, too.
I got tired of scrolling after just getting to Meat, so the list is appreciated.
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I guess I’ll just skip those items
Realizes it’s almost all food
Well shit… at least I don’t need sand anytime soon.
Keep in mind, the response is targeted at products that we actually produce in Canada. There should be Canadian alternatives to all of these.
Keep in mind that a huge percent of food you find in Canada is made from Canadian ingredients.
The list covers every we could import, but most of those are produced in Canada, just read the labels.
I’m sure you can find food that isn’t imported from the US.
That seems less targeted than I had expected.
It’s almost entirely things that we also make ourselves, or can get from other, more friendly countries.
Or things tlat we can comfortably do without for an extended time (playing cards and jewelry, for example)
TBH I’m in favour of a full embargo. Halt trade altogether.
Debating heading out to stock up on deodorant and other storable goods. Not that I want to buy American right now, just that historically domestic alternatives simply raise prices to match the tarrif product prices in an effort to profit take.
Costco and gas stations have been INSANE all weekend
A curated list of non-U.S.-based alternatives to popular services, focusing on privacy and global accessibility.
https://github.com/anitwek/alternatives-to-us
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Tariff Item No. 1205.10.00
Rape from the US is now being taxed. I guess I’ll just stick with Canadian rape, keep it local.
One of the worse named plants of all time, thanks Latin.
And that’s why we renamed it “Canada oil” aka Canola
Canada Oil Low Acid, to be precise.
Well, part of the reason. “Canola” is really only the edible variant, which is now a bit more than fifty years old. Older cultivars contained large amounts of erucic acid, which apparently is neither tasty nor very good for you.
I don’t know whether anyone still grows the non-canola rapeseed cultivars as a cash crop.
Thanks, I could not understand what they were talking about 😂
spoiler
I thought this was about Loblaws “raping” their consumer’s wallets rather than getting it “raped” by Amazon or something.
