Buy Canadian
A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.
Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.
Rules:
1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services
2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
3. AI Content Policy
Not allowed: AI-generated images or articles
Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries
4. Only content in French and English is permitted
5. Declare all self-promotion
Users are encouraged to report any content that violates our community guidelines
Règlements :
1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens
2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.
3. Politique sur le contenu IA
Non permis : Images ou articles générés par l'IA
Toléré : Résumés IA de publications
4. Seul le contenu en français et en anglais n'est toléré
5. Déclarez toute auto-promotion
Les utilisateurs sont encouragés à signaler tout contenu qui ne respecte pas nos directives communautaires
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Don’t do this because it “sends America a message.” You are one person, your decision to spend tourist dollars has a negligible effect. You do not make a difference to them.
To whatever extent an aggregate message is felt by Americans, it will be spun by their King as justification for the preexisting messaging about how the world is against them. This messaging will almost certainly be successful — it’s always easier to blame others than look inward. Americans are not exceptional, and will respond to these messages the same way people did in the days of 1930s fascism and in modern China and Russia.
So no; don’t boycott America to send them a message.
Instead, boycott American tourism and products and companies for yourself. It will feel good for your soul. It feels good to stand up for yourself, to stand with your neighbours, with your countrymen, and with our allies around the world. In a world where we can feel like powerless pawns in a game played by evil behemoths — we can at least do what’s right and feel good about that.
American companies care, the tourist industry sounded the alarm that even a 10% drop in Canadian tourists would lead to a multi-billion dollar hit to their industry.
Elon Musk cares, so much that he'd want to make it illegal to speak ill of Tesla. His stock is still dropping and hundreds of billions of wealth that Elon had access to is circling the toilet.
Do it for yourself. Do it for your country. Do it to flip the bird towards Trump, Musk, American and multinational corps that suck up to them, and MAGA.
I do it because usa threatens to annex Canada. I do it for Canada's sovereignty.