I won't back down either. Pretty much will try to shop Canadian first as much as possible.

I avoid US crap as much as I can. And definitely not food now they've gutted the safety checks.

I live on the border and I will never cross it again.

You bet we are. And quite possibly for generations.

It's too bad our government doesn't seem to share this stance. There seems to be more and more cases where they use 'elbows up' type marketing messages, while implementing an 'elbows down, cheeks spread' set of practices.

Was just looking at some of the govt sector mandate letters for 2025, and.... while tariffs are mentioned, there's no real direction to take action.

Like in BC, Eby and them attempt to paint themselves as pro Canada, only to issue these lame-duck mandate letters to gov regulators/industry. An example? The closest the BC FSA (financial regulators) 2025 mandate letter comes to the subject is prolly with this line:

In the current economic and fiscal context including the threat of U.S. tariffs and other global economic challenges affecting British Columbian families, your organization is to work with ministry staff to review all existing programs and initiatives to ensure programs remain relevant, efficient, sustainable, grow the economy, and help keep costs low for British Columbians.

Note that the 'actions' directed in the second half of that line, don't actually address the threat noted in the first half. There's no push to distance from US tech companies; so long as they're cheap, sovereignty be damned.

The BC financial regulators are fully entrenched in Microsoft products / American cloud systems. So the regulator of one of our "Critical Industries" can't perform their duties without paying a subscription to a US company. Totally sounds like we're a sovereign nation to me....

• No travel to the US
• Absolutely as few American products purchased as possible - to the point of not buying carrots when I can't get local ones
• Closing and deleting my social media accounts and cloud services
• Avoiding American-owned companies whenever possible

In addition, I've been avoiding the worst Canadian companies when possible (specifically, the ones who really don't give a fuck about Canada) - Shopify, Loblaws, and the rest.

No travel to the US. Not buying american groceries. Focusing on Canadian foods at grocery store. If we don't have a Canadian or ABA option we do without. If the labeling is ambiguous or doubtful we do without. Won't shop american brands. I go out of my way to skip home depot or lowes for Canadian Tire and Home Hardware. I routinely look up corporate ownership before making purchases. Amazon is dead to me. I switched old habits like dog food. Now i'm buying a Canadian made food from a Canadian owned store. The list goes on.

This is for life. I'm never going back.

No travel to the US. Eliminate anything "Made in the USA" (where possible).

By not buying their produce, mostly.

Imagine if we start making everything from shoes to electronics

As an expat, the availability of physical American products in the UK is limited, so the digital services have been on my "screw the Yankees" list:

| Service | Alternative | |

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| | Amazon | Just buying shit from other sites | | AWS, Azure | Self-hosting, and kicking up a fuss at work to push us out of the cloud | | Microsoft Windows | Linux baby! (To be fair, I was already on that train) | | Google | DuckDuckGo, though it's still american, I can't find an actually useful non-US search engine | | Android | I might make the jump to Graphene or e/OS for my Fairphone | | Steam | GOG |

I'm also avoiding US brands at the grocery store, but that's probably easier here than back home.

I have no intention of traveling to the states and I avoid buying American products. But I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because I still use American streaming services and watch American films in the theatre

I just want to point out that people have been going out of their way to support the biggest Canadian Trumpers while not "buying American".

And lot of these companies ain't very shy about their support on social media.

-Killed all American based social media (personal and small business)

-gave up travel after 911. Volunteered as a medic at WTC. Got treated like shit when we questioned the whole WMD warmongering. Not been back since.

-cancelled Amazon immediately. Left Google and Microsoft behind. Working on degooglinv my phone as well. I'm new to all this type of techy stuff and I'm old so it's taking a bit longer than others.

-taught as many as I can the ways of torrenting and free streaming. I've been purchasing from the little guy and stealing from the big guy for decades as a teen of the 90's.

-completely stopped purchasing all food and any other goods we could from America and produced solely by American companies including those with presence in Canada (sorry fellow Canadians employed by these asshats but it's got to happen)

-switched pet food brands to a Canadian company. Working on animal feed for our homestead. No more veggie seeds from there either.

-no fast food treats, chain restaurants, hotels, online booking companies, etc from murican companies.

-if we can't find it from somewhere other than 'murica we don't need it.

-no shipping from my small business to US customers anymore. I'm not interested in their business until they depose their dictator.

-we are also teaching our young kids to avoid products and services from 'murica. We openly speak to them about what is happening there and how it is affecting us socially, politically and morally in Canada. We will do our best to make this boycott generational.

-our kids have given up lots of things on their own because of our actions as parents. No dictators here. They choose for themselves and I am proud to say even at 10 and 12 they have made exceptional choices.

Someone I know started torrenting for the first time ever (American shows only) and cancelled their streaming services. Cancelled Prime. I'm avoiding American products as much as possible.

I live in Japan right now so it's hard to support Canadian companies, but it has become my family's mission to avoid US services (we downloaded all of our photos and files off Google and cancelled our subscription) and shit made in the US or by American companies (McDonald's, meats, produce, snacks). It's been so satisfying.

I feel bad for involving my kids, though, because it feels like I'm indoctrination them. I did tell them why we're doing this, and that they can make their own calls when they start making their own money.