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One thing that's a bit of a judgement call are something like Strawberries. Driscolls for example are a California company, but they do some of their growing in Mexico. Some I bought this week were labelled "Mexican grown" on signage, but when you look on the package it's clear that Driscolls itself is California even if they got the berries from a Mexican farm of theirs. Wherever possible I'd like to be cutting USA out completely, which this time of the year might mean going more frozen. eg the PC frozen strawberries in our freezer right now are labelled as being product of Peru.  
 
West Coast/BC berries are usually ready about a month before prairie ones. Be interesting to see if things get a little more competitive for those in June before all of the locally grown prairie ones are avail for a few weeks.  
 
Was reading that blueberries could get complicated. Tons grown in Canada, but BC growers at least (not sure about further East) get a lot of the plants themselves from the other side of the border.  
 
Our ace in the hole are Canadian (and even Manitoban) greenhouse grown veggies. The mini cucumbers that are everywhere these days at good prices are as much of a staple as bananas for us now. Maybe at least this will lead to more of a market for local greenhouse setups.

Guessing these guys are about to be that much more in demand:  
https://picardpeanuts.com/about-us/ 
 
As far as products that contain, guess we'll have to see where supply chains fall. US definitely aren't the only grower even if they've been the most convenient (Google saying they only grow 5% of the world's peanuts).

Side note, a type of Almond tree that's just starting to make its way into Canada is gonna open up a lot of potential for our own almond production too. Assuming it'll take a few years for any plantings to really start producing if anyone decides to get into them commercially!

What we need to avoid is infighting about the best way to resist. While we're fighting, tariffs are put in place, stay there for a long time and slowly bleed this country out because we aren't focused on how to push back.  
 
I'm sure you mean well by suggesting people in stead flood trump with emails and such, but the guy pretty much only speaks dollars and cents. By all means send emails too, but he'll probably take those emails as a sign that the pressure he's putting on the country is working and that we're one step closer to capitulating. He needs to hear the message from the businesspeople he respects, people who themselves in majority are going to speak dollars and cents. He needs to see it show up in reports that show how the US economy is doing from month to month, year to year. Its unfortunate if workers in the USA get caught in the crossfire, but what he's trying to do to this country unsolicited is a heck of a lot more awful.  
 
There are direct examples that it works too. Eg the Kentucky Senator that broke from his party to make sure its known how much the change in market for their alcohol is going to effect their state. It's on Trump, the aggressor knowing that that impact is happening, to own it... not the victim that's trying to fight back.  
 
I have zero doubt that the holiday cancellations are going to add up on tourist destinations. When you travel to somewhere like a Florida and chat with folks there, you sure run into a lot of Canadians during normal times. Thats a lot less spending if we find better places to go.  
 
One that's a trickier one still is something like a USA-owned coffee shop located in Canada. Havent given them a nickel since this tariff fight and might not ever again. Its unfortunate if long-term that effects available positions for work on this side of the border, but I'll still be buying drinks... it'll just be from somewhere else that will also need to hire folks to make those drinks.

Came across this one yesterday with some good info on Canadian-owned brands. 
https://www.buzzfeed.com/abbyzinman/canadian-products-are-better 

Handful on the list that are relevant to Brandon. Forgot that A & W makes the grade. Its been a while now since we've ordered from Amazon. Going to think twice before hitting the order button on if there's a better option. Princess Auto for example has a lot of own-brand stuff that's actually decent that wasn't always top of mind for me  

At the same time not the time to forget locally owned independents in various industries that won't show up on wider lists like this that have a national focus.

I'm concerned with their dairy not meeting our health standards. They've taken what looks like a scary turn when it comes to epidemics, pandemics, science and fact. Don't think one could trust that the product we'd be getting would be safe from say bird flu. Then can get into their top Health Secretary's stance on pasteurization.  
 
The Donald can run around like a bull in a china shop and make changes in his own country, but over these next four years he's going to find out how important trust is in international relations and that you can't always overcome lack of it by shaking your fist. No thanks to USA dairy 1000 times, I expect my gov to fight hard for that position.