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It’s more than that for me. Many products I bring into Canada from Europe come into the country via a warehouse or subsidiary in the US before landing in Canada.

I’ve stopped importing their products even though they’re not American.

I want to source their products direct or work with them to build out distribution here in Canada.

We need to change the worldview that America is the centre piece. Their fascists and what we’re seeing is a symptom of what America really is. Boycott them.

European here. Avoiding American stuff wherever possible since a while.

Sneakers, clothing, Linux rather than Windows, tech, ketchup and so forth.

Not sure what the impact will be, if any, but hopefully it will help a bit somehow.

"I think you need to be in Canada to understand how deep the animosity to the US is"

I too have deep animosity for the US, and I live here

For me a major concern was American surveillance and law enforcement backdoors. A country with no concern for international law or human rights should not have that kind of supranational power. I'd feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.

Here's some alternatives I've been using:

-Routers: Mikrotik, Latvian company, mostly made in Eastern Europe

-Cloud Storage: Tresorit, owned by Swiss Post

-VPS: Ovhcloud, French company with its North American Datacenter in Canada

-Linux: Anything but Fedora which is owned by IBM. Using it contributes to their RnD for their Redhat corporate services and distros.

-DNS: Quad9. Switzerland based non profit. Don't give Cloudflare your precious traffic data.

-Dropped every single US owned social media and subscription service.

Still working on migrating my email and search off Microsoft and Google. Going to drop Android and Steam at the first viable opportunity.

Credit Cards and Youtube are literally the only two that are unviable to switch from... for now.

For anyone interested about companies that have made massive strides since the tariffs:

alt for google : proton (switzerland)

alt browser: vivaldi (norway/germany)

alt search engine : qwant (france) ecosia (germany)

alt for note taking : joplin(england)

alt for win : lunix. (global) -free

alt for mfp: kazio (new zealand)

alt for fitbit : polar (finland)

alt for phones : fairphone (netherlands /china)

alt for github : codeberg (germany)

alt for amazon : shop app (shopify canada)

alt for music : deezer (france)

for books : kobo (canada)

alt for ms office : libreoffice (germany) free

alt card wallet : catima

alt for cloud: nord(lithuania)

alt for streaming : make a jellyfin server - free (throw it on ubuntu (england) start hosting your own stuff local). i suppose also plex but that is a californian company.

alt to paypal : klarna (europe) - that said we still do need more ecommerce to be supportive of alternatives for this and card wallets other than google pay. this is really lagging behind.

I am hoping to hear from a real Canadian if this a common thing among Canadians or is it just a handful of people?

As an American, I'm right there with you Canada. I've been giving your country all my tourism money for the past 2 years since the orange dipshit became president again. You deserve it more than this shitty country does.

It's been an education.

On the positive side, I never realized how many products are actually manufactured in Canada. There's a Canadian option for nearly everything I see at the supermarket. Toothpaste is an odd exception. Some items read "Made in Canada using domestic and imported ingredients". They don't specify beyond that where they were imported from, which is a bit annoying.

One thing that really pisses me off is canned soup. Apparently, Campbells went around at some point and bought up nearly all the independent canneries, replacing them with a few giant ones in the US. Even Habitant, which I had always thought of as a Canadian brand, is under the Campbells umbrella at this point. But Canada (specifically Quebec) is the primary aluminum producer for North America by a good margin, which means a 50% tariff ding for every can produced. This affects American and Canadian consumers alike. Canned soup is supposed to be affordable, dammit!

Well, it turns out there is one cannery left in my area: Sprague. They're a bit of a boutique brand, so not necessarily cheaper, but at least they're not tariff-inflated and they make a good product. Their soups generally don't contain outrageous amounts of sodium like most of Campbells offerings, and all their cans have pull tops which is a nice touch. I'm giving them a lot of business now and hope they can expand to fill the void of Canadian producers.

I hope the boycott doesn't stop even after if ever the regime changes. US will stay the same, what happened today can happen tomorrow.

MS Windows and MS Office is also "made in USA".

I thought this was already being done almost from the onset of the current U.S. regime?

People aren't going back and forth on this decision. It's definitely something that needs to be done and they need to stick to it. Build up your own infrastructure before it's too late.

I'm guessing a large percentage of the upvotes are from Americans.