Sand Northrup was crushed at a friend’s house in Snow Gibsons, BC, on Saturday night, when they got the words they would now follow with crushing tariffs on Canadian goods. During the CRIBBAGE game, they threw out plans for personal response, but they could – already sipping beer from the local Sunshine Coast brewery instead of the California Red bottle.
“It was very similar: ‘Here we go. There is. Now we have to engage. What are we going to do?” said Northrup, 67, in an invitation from East Vancouver on Monday.
“And as these things change, we have to put our money where our mouths are.”
Numerous Canadians who spoke with CBC News have said they feel unfair and issued by their economy, especially since he has come from a long -standing ally about trade. They are decisively pushing any personal money that they can spare from now – from a little adjustment to the account and subscription to cancellation plans for travel plans and reviews where to apply for school.
They said that the last-minute contract that would temporarily delay the tariffs did not change his mind because their feeling was the same: to interfere with the economy after years of free trade, and we will run our job elsewhere.
‘Hostile message’
Canadians have known for weeks that the tariffs are were on the horizon. US President Donald Trump had said that on the first day in power he would impose a 25 percent against Canada and Mexico tariffs for what he described as inactivity on illegal drugs and migrants who entered the USA
Instead, on Saturday, he submitted the executive commands, setting the stage for the tariffs to take effect just after midnight on Tuesday.
Tariffs and probable trade war They were Avoid, at least temporarily, after Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached a Last-minute contract to delay the tariffs by March. Was a welcome news for anxious global economy But for many, trust In the US, it has already been lost.
Illuminated Canadians replaced the purchase tips on Redditcheering to those who said they were canceled by Netflix subscriptions or vacations at Disney World in Florida. The number said that if nothing else, they were glad that the country was seemingly united for the usual reason for the party lines.
Daniel Miksha, 22, followed the news carefully over the weekend. Ever since the November presidential elections, he has reviewed whether he will apply for master’s programs in his three best schools: Harvard, Yale and Boston University.
He decided against all three – and against any other school in the United States.
“Seeing such enemy messages toward Canada and only generally imposing a political environment [in the U.S.] It makes me not a place I want to calm down and try to raise my family, “said Miksha, who from Calgary and completed her undergraduate studies at McGill University.
We asked Canadians: How worried are you about Tariff Donald Trump on Canadian goods?
Instead, he signed up for British Columbia University and Ku Leuven in Belgium. The tariff threat strengthened his choice.
“Whether these tariffs have hit, this use of economic threats to the intimidation of Canadians is aggressive and unacceptable,” he said.
Alarm also ran to Maureen Manning, 56, while listening to Saturday’s news with her neighbors in Nanaimo, BC Manning, mother of three who had a wedding in Nevada, said her family had already made changes even before they were The tariffs materialized as materialized as materialized as tariffs that they materialized as tariffs that they materialized as tariffs as materialized as tariffs as tariffs safety.
They buy their products from a local farmer on Vancouver Island and replaced coffee for a combination of Fernwood, baking in Victoria. She said she would also skip her regular trip to Palm Springs, California, and re -examine one of her daughter’s plans to buy a wedding dress in Seattl.
From encouraging American anthem to skipping US items in trade, the Trade Trade War has some Canadians who feel patriotic and less decent with their southern neighbors.
Manning says that the threat of tariffs itself was a “terrible disrespect” toward the ally.
“I think until the last moment we hoped otherwise, aren’t it? That things could be moved, so that there could be the possibility of the President of the United States to remember who his country is, what his country is in Canada, and also acknowledges who and who and who what we were on them.
“So we have no desire to go to states right now.”
From the East Vancouver, Northrup says the new food list is long lasting: Italian wine. Finnish crackers. Mexican avocado. Canadian dairy products, even if it means switching from oat milk. Their vegetable club, which has made a dozen people who buy their products from wholesalers, has already agreed to stop buying in the United States
A spring trip to Portland has been canceled.
Something needs to be done, Northrup said, even if Canadians want this is not the case.
“To feel like you want to get back to the abuser? It’s not a good feeling.”
