Bank of Canada: Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations—Second Quarter of 2025 | more than half of consumers reported that they plan to reduce their spending on US goods and vacations in the US

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Bank of Canada: Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations—Second Quarter of 2025 | more than half of consumers reported that they plan to reduce their spending on US goods and vacations in the United States
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I wish we had numbers. People will SAY that and then buy on Amazon anyway

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It's like when Walmart moves into a place. They destroy the local economy, the surviving mom and mom shops cost twice or three times as much, and it's either Walmart or nothing.

It'll take a few years to figure alternatives and go all in fully.

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Me in the grocery store produce section...

Store: Made in USA
Me: Nah dawg
Store: Made in California
Me: A little better ig. If there's nothing from Canada, how about Mexico?

Separately but on the same topic:
In this new 'elbows up' era, patriotism = spending behaviour
(/s)

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What do you expect us to do, strap bombs to our chests and hit the Peace Arch crossing? We do what is available to us.

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I don't expect that, no. Sorry for not being clear. I meant to bring awareness to how we're being bathed with information about nationalistic purchasing behaviour:
- From Carney, although more so pre-election (eg, 'elbows up'), and many provincial governments
- In so much of advertising in Canada, flaunting that a product is 'made in Canada' or whatever
- In similar messaging all over grocery stores - at the door, on the shelves
- And as a pretty popular mainstream news topic for a while

Although nationalistic purchasing behaviour can be part of what you do if you identify as a proud Canadian, concerned citizen - whatever - it's not the whole repertoire/shebang. With the pervasiveness of this messaging, and the economic world we live in (that likes to profit off this stuff), I think there's danger in us thinking the two are equal versus a parts vs. the whole thing

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