Damn straight!

...wayyyyy up, and I'll call Rusty.

**flute plays

he was going to use fentanyl as a manufactured crisis

He has already used that as a so-called 'emergency' to add tariffs to Canadian imports and strong-arm Carney into increasing border security

I think it's willful ignorance by the media companies.

The 51st State rhetoric is what really boiled Canadians' blood.

PFAS and ecoli.

US meat has always had fecal counts so high that most states mandate you can only order well done cooking.

"Not a real country", like Tesla is not a real car company.

Did we not start the movement after Trump came in?

I'd say we did. This article is based on a survey of data collected June and July 2025

As opposed to inviting/begging the fascist scum through the front door if the regressives had won?

Let’s be honest: the American economy dominates Canada’s. Retaliatory tariffs still hurt Canadians, much much more than Americans.

I don't think that's the intention amongst any of the people I know who are avoiding US products currently, which is quite a few. We're a relatively tiny population size / economy to the United States, and pretending like we'd have the ability to make the states "suffer" with our actions is pretty silly.

Reasons I've heard tend to vary. Some just don't want to support a foreign country that is acting hostile towards us. Many who are looking at the digital side, are increasingly avoiding US tech because it's ignoring Canada laws and imposing US requirements / ideological crap on us -- the AI tools MS uses to probe peoples OneDrive accounts, for example, banning people based on US government trends. This is similar to some others, who want to remove US products because the US is just unreliable and not suited for anything you rely on anymore, as the availability of anything could be impacted by Trump's whims. The US isn't a stable, reasonable or rational trading partner at this point - as demonstrated by how tariffs are broadcast / set. There's even now a non-zero chance that the US may actually attack other western countries, which previously would be unthinkable -- the foreign influence campaigns in Greenland, and the likely influence campaigns in places like Alberta, as well as the Trump administrations indication of potentially attacking "cartels" in Mexico without Mexican involvement, are easy measures there, as is Trump's own comments about selling sub-standard military assets to allies because "Maybe they won't be our allies forever". Heck, half the USA cheered Musk goose-stepping around and doing Nazi salutes earlier this year, though it feels like a decade ago with all the crap coming out of the states currently.

So long and short, it's more about our own safety and security, than it is about 'hurting' the United States. And for most, it's not something that will go away if you all manage to elect a 'sane' democrat or republican next time around. The merit and temper of your government/country's sorta been exposed, and it'll take decades of 'sane' foreign policy to recover.

I came here to say just this. This is something the press—most especially the American press—can't seem to figure out. We're not boycotting because of tariffs. We're not boycotting because our feelings got hurt. We're boycotting because the largest military machine on the planet decided to threaten us with a takeover after decades of us supporting them in almost every half-baked plan they ever had.

Time to say goodbye.

The media explicitly ignores that because it doesn't fit their agenda. I've only seen 1 article out of many that actually listed that in a list of other reasons for why Canadians are boycotting US goods.

Exactly. There's a serious difference between what happened and simply applying tariffs, which I would compare as an analogy to an argument about who is going to pay the bill at dinner for someone's birthday, which no matter how unreasonable and unjustified is not worth throwing away decades of close friendship or family ties over. This is an argument where one person says you'd better pay the bill at dinner or I'm going to kill you. That's a death threat, that's abusive, and that will not be tolerated, and the only reasonable course of action is to immediately and absolutely cut ties and file a restraining order. That is not a joke, and we will not treat it as a joke.

I talk to American friends about it and they're like: "are you still thinking about that?" "we forgot about that a long while back"

it's like geez ... well it's kinda important to us.