Canada is not known for making a noise, with the beautiful beautiful part of her national brand.
No longer. The Canadians are angry and show it.
The threats of President Trump to impose 25 percent of tariffs on Canadian exports and attached the land went into anger cascades.
“Do you know how angry you have to be with the United States to deliberately come out and buy a Canadian toothpaste? Because I’m there,” Janel Comeau, Canadian illustrator and writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotland, Posted on X.
A call to gather against Mr. Trump helped union of provinces throughout the political spectrumincluding Quebec, who has long defended his French identity. Recent polling stations They showed national pride in the province.
Even Americans, who rarely pay attention to the issues north of the border, take into account, and Canadian dissatisfaction becomes a regular conversational place among US television personalities.
“You know it’s bad when you upset Canadians,” Seth Myers, hosting late nights, said on X.
Here are some ways in which Canadians manifest their dissatisfaction.
Made in America? Return to the shelf goes.
Product labels are located under perhaps unprecedented supervision of Canadian customers.
Food products have a plastered display of objects with the inscription made in Canada. Responding to consumer demand, developers have introduced applications, such as Maplescan, buy Beaver, which allow customers to scan the bar code of products and learn its origin.
Canadians also flood the forums of social media for trading tips on the amendments to the groceries list: DIVC Coca-Cola in favor of Canada Dry Ginger (although despite the name owned by the US company); Give up the colgate toothpaste for a toothpaste made by Green Beaver; And skip the Kellogg -these cornflakes and instead pick up the nature of the granol path.
“Before I just headed for what suits me best, and now, I’m putting a point,” said Bill Fukazawa, who lives in Vancouver. “If there is a Canadian choice, I will make a Canadian choice.”
Mr. Fukazawa, who manages the YouTube dietary channel called Maplecook, said in an interview that he was willing to sacrifice authentic American ingredients to make his favorite food, a Kansas City barbecue, as a form of protest.
“There is a huge feeling in Canada betrayal,” Mr. Fukazawa said. “There is no country closer to us than the United States.”
Snow birds are looking for the sun elsewhere.
The Canadian passengers are diverting their dollars For warm weather destinations outside the United States and some seasonal residents even sell real estate. (Although a trade quarrel helps with this, a weak Canadian dollar also plays a role.)
Canada is a leading country of origin for foreign tourists in the United States, according to the US travel association, an industrial group. Last year, the Canadians visited more than 20 million visits to the United States and spent $ 20.5 billion.
On the eve of the spring holidays for schools throughout Canada, there are signs that Canadians are watching at the proposals of Canadian officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeauu, to re -examine their holiday plans.
Research on February 27 by the Association of Tourist Industry in Quebec, a province that forms a considerable part of the Canadian snow birds, found that half of the passengers who planned to visit the United States said they had canceled their trips. (Tourists in the United States from Quebec spend about $ 6 billion a year, according to the tourist industry.)
Janet Deperry, a real estate mediator in Pointa, California, said she had sent emergencies of two clients in recent months who wanted to sell the homes they owned in California, one in Palm dessert and the other in Orange County.
How much were they eager for sales? “I told them what their house was worth, and they decided to list her for $ 50,000 less,” Mrs. Deperry said. “I couldn’t say” I’m sorry “enough for these people.”
Hockey lovers blur the star of Canadian legend.
Hockey fans in Canada were overjoyed after The country beat the United States This month in the championship in four nations. What would usually be relatively friendly games of round goods for global bragging rights turned into an ice geopolitical theater.
“You can’t take our country – and you can’t take our game,” Mr. Trudeau wrote in a post on X after the last game, where the fans of the Canadian fan fans who have raised “Star inscription.”
Many Canadian hockey fans also trained anger against the most famous hockey player of their country: Wayne Gretzky, who was the honorary captain of Canada for four countries.
Mr. Gretzky was already swallowed by a Canadian feathers attending Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January and silent about the president who made Canada 51.
Then he did not wear a Canada jersey or any other red and white clothing in the tournament.
Mr. Gretzky said nothing about a return shot. But Mr. Trump came to his defense.
“He is the greatest Canadian of all of them, and that’s why I make him a” free agent “because I don’t want anyone to say anything bad about him in Canada,” said Mr. Trump in the social media publish.
Goodbye ‘Americano’. Greetings ‘Canadiano.’
The first few letters of “American” were deleted from the Morning Owl menu, a cafe in Ottawa, stifled in a government building. At the proposal of a friend, the owner, Todd Simpson, replaced the text to read “Canadiano”. It is written in red, with a maple leaf next to him for a good measure.
The gesture of Mr. Simpson attracted intense media attention and, he said, he lured the locals and tourists to his store outside the crowded track to show their support to Canada.
Cafes in other parts of the country also stopped using Americano as part of their menu.
“It’s simply something to illuminate this terrible thing that is currently happening between the two countries,” said Mr. Simpson. “Too bad all this is happening.”
Canadians are turning to sketch TV to make it laugh.
Actor Mark Critch delighted the viewers with his impressions about Mr. Trump during the president’s first term on the Canadian comedy for the sketches “This hour has 22 minutes”, which is shown on the CBC, in the National Eimler.
Mr. Critch reprinted the role, even to a greater audience, after the re -election of Mr. Trump in November.
“The times of confusion and uncertainty are great for the comedy,” said Kaari Sinnaeve, a spokeswoman for the CBC, “especially now for ’22 minutes’ with so many materials, and the audience hungry for comic taking.”
