U.S. trade officials are signalling that Canada will need to make policy changes if it wants long-term certainty under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), as the trade deal comes up for mandatory review next year.
U.S. trade officials are signalling that Canada will need to make policy changes if it wants long-term certainty under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), as the trade deal comes up for mandatory review next year.
It’s a spectrum like everywhere on any topic. We have our maple maga to contend with and our conservatives in general are trying to privatize Canadian healthcare to support annexation.
I’m guessing the hostile types are 30% of Canadians. 10% Maple Maga, and the balance something milder and milquetoast.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the people who have enough money to travel to the States, but not so much money that they wouldn’t travel elsewhere are doing a lot less traveling to the States. That segment of the population has been very vocal with their travel dollars that they don’t approve of the political stance or America right now. No, they probably aren’t a majority, but they aren’t insignificant, either, and they are making their opinions heard in a very clear manner. Likewise store purchases. I don’t buy Tostitos/Lays anymore. I barely buy Pringles. My go-to for chips is Old Dutch (which has an American parent company but is produced in Canada with at least partly Canadian ingredients) or other Canadian brands. Enough people are doing it that it’s impacting display decisions at grocers (some of which is to basically lie to us and make us think things are more Canadian than they really are). Both of those are signs that it’s more than just some angry minority being vocal, there is a quiet segment of the population that simply puts in varying amounts of effort to not send money to America.