Canadians are turning to ‘Made in Canada’ goods, and complaints about mislabelling are surging

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  1. **TLDR:**

    * **Canadians are turning to Canada-made products amid Trump’s tariff threats and 51st state comments.**
    * **The surge in demand has come with a rise in complaints about potential mislabeling scams.**
    * **The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says complaints increased by 1000% between January and February.**

  2. Trump has done more to undermine American hegemony in two months than China, the Soviet Union, Al-Qaeda and Iran did in 80 years. Bravo, comrade.

  3. Well once you do the smallest bit of research you quickly realize the “made in..” tags don’t matter at all. If a product is made in Italy by Chinese workers owned by a Chinese conglomerates in a warehouse with the Chinese flag flying, technically it’s still “made in italy”.

  4. “Label Hysteria Sweeps Canada”
    “Northern Nation Sticker Fixation”
    “Canuks Branding Phase”

  5. Starting to see commercials here that say that they are Owned/Operated/Made With Canadian products, love the change.

  6. As an American: Elbows up my CAN brothers and sisters! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

  7. Nothing is technically “Made in (insert country here)” except maybe food, produce and lumber today. Assembled maybe but that’s about it. If you buy a product chances are at least one or many of the parts inside are made somewhere else. So even by buying made in Canada products, some portion of the money is still going into another country.

  8. Mislabelled or purposely mis-labelling is or should be wrong. More of my views, illegal.
    You make it somewhere, you state its made there. 
    Or do we or they now need to AND have to confirm the source of the product and the company name before buying anything?

  9. Would fucking love if these protest boycotts get so big that companies are forced to label their products more accurately, even if I won’t get to benefit because I live in Corporate Utopia, aka USA.

  10. As a Canadian, I’ve never felt more pride to be a Canadian than under Trump’s administration.

  11. We have very strict labeling requirements for food; language, ingredients, nutrition info… make them label ingredient origin, manufacture country. Give full blooded Canadian companies some sort of hard to duplicate shiny sticker.

  12. I wish labels would include states so I can avoid products from states that voted for Trump

  13. People hardly forget enemies let alone friends turned enemies

  14. I know it must be a Nightmare for the Average Retail Workers.

  15. Time to start passing CLEAR legislation that requires ALL product labeling to be clear and accurate or face significant fines.

    Any stores misrepresenting products are complicit and need to be held accountable.

  16. Proudly party assembled* in Canada from prefabricated American and Chinese parts

  17. Its mostly the loblaws chains. They are owned by horrible people who have been caught price fixing items in the past. They also price gouged during covid. They are a rotten to the core company. The billionaires at the top laugh at Canadians. They never get in trouble for any illegal activity. The one time they “kinda” did the penalty was lower than the profit they made.

    They are also SUPER profitable and yet we the tax payers paid for them to upgrade their fridges.

  18. Time for legislating how companies can advertised as being Canadian.

  19. Why hasn’t any politician in USA taken us seriously. There have been a few tongue in cheek respondes from governors succeeding they’re state to Canada, but not a single congressman or senator or anybody in DC has said a single thing about this Canada this l rhetoric

    He’s so obviously seeing up pretense for a military invasion, with making us label Mexican cartels terrorists, his admin shouting about how we’re taken over by Mexican cartels, and labeling fentanyl a WMD.

    Canada needs somebody in DC to go to bat for us. W we need to be taken seriously. I know they’re dealing with a ton of domestic issues right now, but why can’t they do anything?

  20. I think it’s a fair assumption that Russia and China had a fair bit to do with the rise of Trump.

  21. US made items pretending to be Canadian isn’t new. US people have been pretending to be Canadian when they travel the world for decades.

    Sorry. Not sorry.

  22. Companies need to watch it or they’ll get labeled as liars and get boycotted too. Don’t underestimate how pissed off Canadians are.

  23. Tell me why Rockstar energy drinks are labelled as Canadian in some stores

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