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Sovereignty Shopping (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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Pearl Milling is a Product of Canada. The others are Product of USA. I've been using Pearl since the first wave of tariffs (it's just as good). I have returned to turning Product of USA products upside down.

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We do that by getting Canadian businesses to grow to the point they hire more, not by pouring all our money Down South for a bunch of rich fucks to promote sick fucks into a government that attacks Canada.

Obviously we can't do this "cold turkey", but people have to start thinking that way. How do we get out from under the USA's thumb? By feeding the USA all our money!?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, can't expect a 180 over night when it took decades or centuries to build the systems we have now. Making perfect the enemy of good is also not beneficial, so in the other guys favour, at least some of the proceeds make it to Canadians, which certainly is better than nothing.

    But yes, overall we'd be better off having our own products that don't need to syphon shareholder value to billionaires in the states, as a general rule the more foreign influence, the less sovereign.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Exactly this. We can't change, as you said, overnight when decades were spent making things the way they are, but we can start looking at products and deliberately choose the Canadian way.

    Ketchup, for example. Heinz is American, so people are going with French's because of their "Ontario Tomatoes" stuff. But French's is owned by the McCormick group. It's not Canadian either. Dig deeper. Find another ketchup that is actually Canadian. Go with Sun-Brite Foods' (Primo) ketchup line. (I think they're 100% Canadian.) Go with FitCook. Go with small-batch brands like Mi Corazon or Nanny Hudson. Or, and here's a real thought, just buy tomato paste from a Canadian company and make your own. It's not hard, and if you talk with your neighbours, one person who likes cooking can cook up a massive batch for the whole neighbourhood to buy into.

    There are options. You don't have to be a slave to grocery store eye level marketing tricks and a feeling of helplessness.

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