After US President Donald Trump threatened Canada steep tariffs, Monika Morelli of Montreal canceled the subscription to Netflix and Amazon, two giant US companies.
She also canceled a trip she had planned later in the year in New Orleans.
“Something irreversibly broken now, after the United States of Canada have been allies for centuries,” Mrs. Morelli told BBC.
The threat of import tax, she said, plus Trump’s remarks that Canada could become 51. The US state, “she did something in all of us.”
Trump vowed to slap 25% of tariffs in both Canada and Mexico this week, citing problems with the security of the border.
He then reached a surprise agreement with Mexico on Monday, which resulted in duties delayed for 30 days in exchange for more Mexican troops on the border. A similar job with Canada was arranged later during the day.
For Canadians, who were deeply concerned about the economic consequences of tariffs, the delay caused a sigh of relief. But some consider the threat to cause cracks in the US-Canada relationship.
The information published on Wednesday by national anketing angus Reid revealed that 91% of Canadians want their country to relieve the US less in the future, preferring this possibility of repairing relations in the USA, although more than half still wanted to try.
The survey of opinion also recorded a major jump in national pride and revealed that 90% of Canadians closely followed this issue, imitating levels of engagement that had not been seen since the beginning of the Coid-19 pandemia.
Shachi Kurl, President of Angus Reid, told the BBC that the numbers record the “moment of unity” in the country. They also showed that the Canadians responded to US tariffs with a common sense of anger, she said.
Since he is now the largest buyer of Canadian goods, Tariffs threaten to push the Canadian economy into a recession and bring thousands of jobs at risk.
In addition to the tariff, Trump has repeatedly stated several times (perhaps as a joke) that Canada should become an American state instead to avoid paying taxes – the remarks that have been greeted by the anger and some have seen her as a threat to their sovereignty.
The question enabled a rush of patriotism in Canada – especially the unification of people from all political stripes at a time when the country was deeply divided over the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his policies.
Politicians and the general public were pushed by “buy Canadian”, and customers wanted to support local companies and avoid buying products in protest because of potential tariffs.
Carole Chandler, a 67-year-old retired public school teacher from Halifax, said she, like Mrs. Morelli, canceled her upcoming Florida vacation.
“I love America and Americans,” BBC says. “But I don’t want to be one.”
Even with a temporary break on the tariffs, some Canadian provinces continue to encourage forward with “buy local” campaigns to encourage people to spend their dollars closer home.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manitobe Wab Kinew said his province would spend $ 140,000 ($ 97,800; $ 78,200) on advertising – including Panoim and Radio – to encourage manitobans to contribute to their local economy.
Provinces also eliminate obstacles to trade internally within Canada, and many call the country to diversify their trade relationship and build relationships elsewhere.
Kinew described forward and back about the potential tariff war between the US -ai Canada as a similar “whiplash”.
“But through all this, to see people gathering and gathering around the flag, so that the manitoba pride is put on above all, it was very encouraging,” Kinaw said.
Mrs. Kurl noted that the relationship between Canada and the United States lasted for centuries, and two countries have long been close to allies and partners on the world stage.
“It’s a pretty caught relationship,” she said.
Canadians share not only deep economic ties with the US, but also family ties and the longest land border in the world. Now they have also been a long trip to travel to Canadians.
She said it would not be easy to separate these relationships, and it remains to be seen whether the recent feelings of Trump’s tariffs signal a fundamental shift between the two countries.
Much of that, she added, she could depend on how she is making a relationship with the current US president and whether the threat of the tariff is materialized.
While the Canadians are waiting and seeing what is happening, they said they wanted to support their own, but they could.
“We don’t put big screens as Americans do,” Mrs. Chandler of Halifax said.
But Canadian patriotism runs deep, she said.
