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HALIFAX — In downtown Vancouver, Sandra Mori walked out of a provincial liquor store on Tuesday with B.C. wine, and raised her elbow to the sky.
“Elbows up,” she said, referencing the common hockey term used to signal it’s time to fight back. Mori, who is from Ontario and visiting her father in Vancouver, said she has been buying Canadian products from all over Canada.
“Everybody I know in Ontario, in B.C., are buying Canadian,” she said.
From coast to coast, Canadians are remaining defiant in the face of punishing U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, promising to use their wallets to fight the trade war launched on Tuesday by President Donald Trump.
In downtown Halifax Tuesday, hours after Trump imposed 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on products from Canada, and a 10 per cent levy on energy, Haligonians said their resolve was strong. Darcy Comeau said people should find as many alternatives as possible to goods from south of the border.
“I think we should really cut them off, and we should stay (buying) 100 per cent Canadian,” he said.
Christopher Hart, a Halifax resident who is a dual Canada-U.S. citizen, said he’s furious with Trump. “He’s done so many things that are just wrong,” he said. “I didn’t vote for him, I did vote in the election. I think he’s sowing a lot of uncertainty and division.”
Hart said he’s a “wine guy” and California wines have long been a favourite, but he won’t buy any wine made with American grapes from now on. “I’m not going to buying any U.S. stuff, frankly. It’s sad, but it’s where I’m at,” he said.
Tom Hetherington, who was holding a Canadian flag in the heavy rain outside of the U.S. Consulate in downtown Vancouver, said he was there to show solidarity amid the trade dispute. Hetherington said his family was buying Canadian products first, and called the tariffs a “wake-up call” for Canada to be more self-sufficient.
“As an individual, I’m here to try and build a better world, a world post Trump, a better Canada, a more sustainable Canada and I’m prepared to pay a little for that,” Hetherington said.
In Edmonton, a dual Canada-U.S. citizen interviewed outside a grocery store Tuesday said she is “mortified” by Trump’s behaviour, adding that she also voted against him. “This is very scary economically,” Karyn Ball said.
“Canada, along with other countries in the world, needs to start thinking of this as a very urgent threat and figure out a way of defending ourselves against the fascist U.S.”
Ken Mutlow, an Edmonton resident out grocery shopping, said nothing in his cart came from the U.S. “I am extremely angry with everything to do with the U.S. these days. We’ve been trying to buy Canadian for a while … but if it’s from the U.S., we are just not buying it.”
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