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Ooops ... I think you may misunderstand ⬆

That article isn't really about 'Made In Canada' (although it gets a mention) ... it's mainly about 'A (Food) Product Of Canada' (i.e. grapes / maple syrup / beef / tomatoes / etc.).

The two terms sound similar, but have different meanings.

Either way ... Buy Canadian, Eh ❗

Dean

From the LCBO....

From the LCBO....

Dean said

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Here's another good article on the same subject :

CBC News Article ➡ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/buying-canadian-trade-war-freshco-1.7475613

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It seems that some retailers are being 'Intentionally Sloppy' about this ❗

Dean

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P.S.

And then there's this ⬇

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And, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, my assessment of the various country of origin apps that have emerged recently is that they are mostly digitized heresay...

SaverJunior said
A recent poll on Canadians says that many are okay to stop buying products from the USA but no way to give up Netflix.

At the end, it is all about sacrifices that one can make.

Buying or holding securities listed on any U.S. securities exchanges is "Buy American".

How deep is your love for the country? Have anyone adjusted their portfolio since the start of the trade war?  

Good point. I would say we are loyal to our country, Canada, and hopefully each of us reduces our patronage to USA products and USA companies operating in Canada. I know we have, and will expand.

But do you drop your TV subscription as most of us have USA channels and we watch American programs on Canadian channels?

I would drop my TV subscription and keep Netflix. As it makes a dent vs a full withdrawal. But it reduces our patronage and profit to the American company.

Do you stop shopping at Costco and Safeway or just make sure you don’t buy American products?

We have stopped, as much as possible, shopping at American stores and restaurants and do our best to by buying products from Canada first, any other country second, and China and USA last.

Collectively our reduction will have impact.

It’s amazing to see how tied in we are to the USA for almost every thing. The bug thug that flagrantly ignores trade agreements needs to be stopped.

Dean said

Heads Up ⬆

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Safeway Canada is Not an American company ❗

Dean

  

Using the KISS method....any company that originates from the USA will not be patronized. And A&W is supposedly Canadian too. But is Tim Hortons???

Canadians now feel the need to be less reliant on and integrated with the U.S.
The "integrated" comment is very important to see how we have allowed ourselves to be ho hum, ho hum, with it all.

Canadians are doing all we can to detach from the U.S., to move to other markets, to get away from the whims of one person in the White House.

GIC-Fanatic said

Using the KISS method....any company that originates from the USA will not be patronized. And A&W is supposedly Canadian too. But is Tim Hortons???

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Sadly, No.

Tim Hortons hasn't been Canadian owned, for quite some time now.

Dean

GIC-Fanatic said

Using the KISS method....any company that originates from the USA will not be patronized. And A&W is supposedly Canadian too. But is Tim Hortons???

I believe that Tim Hortons is owned by Brazilian conglomerate, Restaurant Brands International.

As canadian.10 noted, Safeway in Canada is owned by Sobey's. And Sobey's is part of the Empire group, which is Canadian.

Tim Horton's has been bought and sold many times over the years, to Americans and back again. I can't find any solid info about who owns how much of them now.

All this talk about interprovincial trade barriers reminds me of the removal of those about the time of the original NAFTA. All the big beer companies bought each other out until there were only two. They said they needed to get bigger to compete with large foreign companies. Those two, now controlling almost all the Canadian beer market, sold themselves to the US and Brazil.

What would happen today without provincial trade barriers in, for example, the totally uncompetitive canadian telecommunications companies?

cgouimet said

As Herman reported a few posts back, Tim Hortons is owned by "Brazilian conglomerate, Restaurant Brands International". Sister brands include Burger King and Popeye.  

Just to clarify....not fully Brazilian owned.

Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI) is a Canadian-American multinational fast food holding company. It was formed in 2014 by the $12.5 billion merger between American fast food restaurant chain Burger King and Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons, and expanded by the purchases of Popeyes and Firehouse Subs in 2017 and 2021, respectively. The company is the fifth-largest operator of fast food restaurants in the world after Subway, McDonald's Corporation, Starbucks and Yum! Brands. They are based alongside Tim Hortons in Toronto (previously Oakville, Ontario).[4] For multiple purposes, Burger King, Popeyes, and Firehouse Subs retain their existing operations and headquarters, with BK and Popeyes in Miami, and Firehouse in Jacksonville. The 2014 merger focused primarily on expanding the international reach of the Tim Hortons brand and providing financial efficiencies for both companies.

3G Restaurant Brands Holdings LP, an affiliate of the Brazilian investment company 3G Capital, owns a 32% stake in Restaurant Brands International.[5] The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. In March 2023, Joshua Kobza was named the CEO of Restaurant Brands International, replacing Jose Cil, who had held the role since 2019.