"It’s outrageous that you banned American products from your shelves": The U.S. Ambassador to Canada opened up about U.S.-Canada tensions and what he hopes to see from the new prime minister.
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I wish U.S. stuff was banned, it'd save me the hassle of hovering over an app in the grocery store, trying to reconcile if I can live with a 3 out of 5 Canadian rating (I can if it's packaged here) - but I'll do it to buy anything but u.s.a.
Well that guy can just fuck right off and stay fucked off.
Canadians will make their own choices on what they purchase. If we choose to not buy US products we will. Oh wait we already are doing that so too bad so sad for you. Sit in a corner and pout or kick your boss in the ass.
Your products are not banned. There is no market for them anymore. Nobody wants to buy your crap. As for the provincial liquor boards, they can import whatever they choose to sell.
Elbows Up. I haven't bought one thing Made in US since tariffs first announced and doubt will ever again. And never going there ever again. Had wonderful visit last year. There is much if my own. Country and world I haven't seen.
I stopped visiting the US after the first time he was in office. I haven't purchased anything from the US other than Dr. Pepper for drive-in movie drinks last weekend, since the tariffs were announced. I don't even want to see US products on the shelves.
There's a big difference between "banned" and "not buying"; Canadians are doing the latter. The Ambassador needs to express his outrage to trump who is responsible, not to Prime Minister Carney.
For an ambassador, he speaks in pretty undiplomatic terms. Typical of the trump administration, he flings insults and threats, denigrates our nation and then says “Why are you mad?”
Fuck Trump fuck MAGA. Fuck the entire criminal utterly corrupt regime. Canada will stand together and stand strong. As we have always said in the last few months. Absolute no to US products. Absolute no to travel to US. Absolute definite no to Tesla. Absolute no to any US airline. Canada Strong. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
False and a lie as every product made in America is available to purchase in any store or online in Canada.Customers choices. Alcohol in one large outlet pulled products from the states in Ontario and promoted other countries as well as Ontario. All is fault of Trump as he is at war economically.
He seems to even more obtuse than the usual MAGA chucklefucks. He can go fuck himself with a rusty saw. I have no intention of buying any US product unless there is absolutely no choice
Canadians won't buy them anyway, and stores don't want to waste money putting American products in their stores
Who is he to tell Canadians what they should buy
Fuck him
Well we didn’t really. American products are still there. Everywhere. It’s only alcohol that is off the shelves.
And we’re supposed to boycott American stuff but there are still lots of American products being bought.
I hope we can all keep the new habits we've established by not buying USAisn stuff! Perhaps we've had a collectively patriotic transformational experience. Words.
Pffft we didn’t ban anything. Ontario went rogue but i think it didn’t last. We simply imposed reciprocal tariffs. And Canadians are choosing to not buy US products and not travel to US. Do these Americans not understand English or do they pretend to be stupid? Frustrating.
Sorry but it did last. Ontario here. Not sure about electricity . But American booze on Shelves . And boycott of Tesla doing just fine. Cancelled Starlink contract Elbows up everywhere ,haven't spent 1cent in American goods. Cancelled Twitter, Amazon ( and Prime) FB & Insta.
"It's outrageous that the Trump Administration broke all trade deals with the world and broke an agreement to help defend Ukraine if invaded in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons. Choosing instead to use extortion for a minerals deal whilst aiding with Russia"
No. What’s outrageous are the nightmare, bullshit games Trump is playing with the livelihood of Americans and Canadians. Not to mention the rest of the world. Evil prick!
This dumb prick needs to get his head out of his ass. We should expect that the United States will be hostile to Canada's interests until there is a regime change.
Donny 2 Dolls should have not stuck your citizens and ours with the tariff in the first place. He might make you all do without but Canada & Canadians decided no thanks. Our children love dolls & the bogus King from the south isnt going to stop us from buying anything, especially dolls for our kids
It might have been outrageous if Canadians - the owners of our provincial liquor stores 😊 - wanted American booze on the shelves
We didn’t. We don’t want to buy your products so they came off the shelf to make room for more our own products. The products the people of Canada want to buy
I’m aware. The article didn’t specify though. 🤷♀️ He can’t rewrite history to accommodate the version of events he prefers. Remove the tariffs. Be a good neighbour.
It's outrageous that Canada has to live next door to a fascist country too, but here we are. It's outrageous that a lifelong friend stabbed us in the back, but here we are. It's outrageous that the US president said he's going to annex our country, but here we are....
I can only imagine how having that ignorant con man destroying everything that once made you great must feel to sane America. We’ll all get through this.
As an American: Go Canada!! 🇨🇦
On this administration? How the fuck do these manage to make it through the day while being beyond mentally ill? I’m nowhere near their levels and I’m on five meds to get through the day.
Wait. How does he say he would prefer Canada be a great ally in the auto industry when Trump openly said, during the meeting with PMMC, that the ambassador attended, that he wants all vehicles made in the US and intends for it to be financially out of reach for Canada to manufacture autos?
Canada did not ‘ban’ anything. The Canadian people, on their own and without any direction from gov’t, have decided to stop buying US goods. It is a grass-roots reaction that our governments have no control over. Because here, the people have power over gov’t, not the other way around.
Various premiers did have their provincial liquor stores stop selling American booze, so the dude is not lying.
But the fact he’s so angry about it tells me we should stop buying even harder…
Outrageous my ass. The U S waged economic warfare against Canada and he thinks Canadians should continue to buy U S products to support their economy!? No! We spontaneously decided to boycott U S products to support our own economy. The aggressor is gaslighting the victim.
Touting Operation Market Garden as some kind of military success to diminish Canadian efforts in the Netherlands is revisionist and demeaning. The ambassador is a twit.
Besides being way too long, the article read like the ambassador is a former high school jock, sitting behind his desk in a varsity letter jacket and playing around with a basketball while talking. And he’s Dutch-American, double the arrogance. 😝
Trump fucked us and I don't foresee any reason for us to reconcile. We've been by their side in war & conflict. Their traitorous hypocrisy is just a supreme example of American gratitude...fuck America.
Americans are so infantile.Trump is fucking them and bankrupting them everyday.They still think he's okay.By the time midterm elections roll around hewill have destroyed every agency,electoral logistics system,judicial process,county&state& federal vote tabulation results.He plans to remain by chaos
They can go fuck themselves to eternity. Our relationship with the US is done. We are in a transition. The world is in transition. 10 years from now the US will be the biggest shit hole the universe has ever seen.
We're already there, we just finally woke up to it, and are having to fight decades of indoctrination and festering hate. Don't give up on all of us; we'll need help to eliminate the rot.
Hoping the Canadian Govt pulls this MAGAT's diplomatic credentials and sends him home to Trump's America. Canadians don't want to have anything to do with Trump's cronies.
#BoycottUSATravel
#BoycottUSGoods
#FuckTrump
We decided to buy Canadian as a way of mitigating the effects of the tariffs. It encourages our businesses and the money stays in Canada. It seems to be working quite well.
This is more proof we need to uncouple in trade and defence as much as humanly possible from the US over the never few years regardless of how hard it is. We cant be allies with a country that attempts to extort 🇨🇦based on lies. They already invaded a Iraq based on lies, we are a lot closer.
Elbows up Canada. It's outrageous that the US ambassador thinks that we would just roll over. We need consistent trade partners, not a wishy washy on and off tariffs partner. Get back to us when you get the orange clown king out of office.
Isn't it more outrageous that we imposed ridiculous tariffs on them and insulted them with the 51st state bullshit?
Nothing like throwing the first punch and then complaining that you hurt your fist, ambassador.
And sadly, many Canadians still find it rude to boo the American anthem and believe anthems have nothing to do with politics because it doesn’t have to do with an election.
Like how do you not understand politics affects more than just elections. Yikes.We can’t boo the country that wants to rid us?
The beauty of free speech is that you can boo whomever you want to...and that's why the greatest majority of "we the people" Americans are fighting for our democracy. We have lived as friends & allies in peaceful friendship for centuries and one orange idiot won't change that. 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸💙
Many won't .Even after he is gone will take years to earn back trust. Plus surprise,surprise can find better made quality goods in Canada and around the world..have had so much fun in discovering!
It's outrageous that Trump wants to annex us! It's outrageous that the Fat Pig has placed severe tariffs on us. Goes to show the cruel, lying hypocrisy of the Fat Pig has resonance in that hellhole. Canadians aren't afraid to go there, we are pissed off. If anyone is afraid it is Americans. Fuck you
Not nearly as outrageous as random high tariffs, kidnapping or detaining innocent people and the laundry list of gutting human rights, healthcare, science, and public services etc for your US citizens and residents
You can't expect to start a trade war and threaten to annex a country and be surprised that they want as little to do with you as possible. Actions have consequences.
Not banned. Many of the provinces who run the liquor boards removed US spirits from the shelves. Many Canadians started looking for products not made in USA.
Provincial Premiers removed U.S. alcohol in government controlled liquor stores as part of Canada's response to the US tariffs. Canada's retaliatory tariffs are on specific US products to elicit pressure to remove the tariffs while having minimum impact to Canadians as alternatives are available.
Nobody banned anything (well maybe some alcohol has been taken off the shelves) we the people started the boycott and we the people (undirected) have continued to boycott US products. Our government did not initiate this, WE DID
The USA reneged on a Treaty that was signed by Trump himself and then he attacked our sovereignty. I feel that the Canadian response was quite restrained. Our Prime Minister was not insulting your President but yours was. Our citizens are being harassed in your country by officials and US citizens
He didn't finish that sentence.
"It's outrageous that you banned American products from your shelves… AFTER WE TOLD THE WORLD WE WERE GOING TO DESTROY YOUR ECONOMY SO THAT WE COULD STEAL YOUR COUNTRY."
Now he can (I usually refrain from profanity but this warrants it) FUCK RIGHT OFF.
#NastyCanadian
turns out we are surrounded by abundance within our own provinces and as internal trade barriers fall, with more and more other provinces as well. Instead of N-S it's more E-W. Plus international foods and products since people like us. It's actually pretty amazing. Thank you world! We love you!
Little Pete is outraged--again. Too bad he’s aiming his whining in the wrong direction—he might as well send it straight to Trump’s complaint department.
It’s called cultural pride we believe in by Canadian keep those dollars in our country support Our local farmers and businesses stimulate our economy and give our younger generations a better chance of success in their lives
Boycott, not a ban. Our liquor agencies stopped buying US products as a consequence of Trump breaking his trade agreement and putting exorbitant tariffs on Canadian products. Many Canadians joined in the boycott out of annoyance about sovereignty threats. The USA is not a victim here.
Last time I check an independent country csn do WHATEVER TF it wants when putting things on shelves or allowing the sale of products. Maybe the US should focus on its own fire burning down itself the country is a shit show.
He can go pound salt! even IF the products come back, they can be turned upside down (Canucks will know what I mean by that) #BoycottUSA #BuyCanadian #Never51
In the article, the ambassador states he is listening to inform Trump about 🇨🇦.
Well here is the message…
#FuckTrump
#BoycottUSA
#Never51
#CanadaStrong
Trump, Hoekstra, & all the rest of the MAGA morons can go fuck themselves!
Canada has no time for your shit!!!
DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, reverse victim & offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior.
It's a reasonable decision. American design and manufacturing standards are dogshit; the bulk of their creative prowess goes into missiles and Boer-brained AI.
Sorry for the delusional, gestapo administration in our country. What scares me is I am TRAPPED in this shit hole! I am embarrassed and terrified, never thought I would experience those two emotions at the same time!!
At minimum, based on the treatment of visitors to the US and even the treatment of government officials from others countries but US Fed gov entities and personnel, ALL US allies should IMMEDIATELY: expel the US from NATO and the UN, ban ALL travel to/from the US, ban ALL imports/exports from/to …
the US, expel/recall all ambassadors connected to the US, expel ALL US military forces, recall any military forces from the US,block ALL communication to/from the US, and more.
It's outrageous for a Dutchman to be an American stooge...remember who liberated your people, while the Yanks didn't want to help, but were forced to join the war. 🇨🇦 Strong!
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#ElbowsUp #Donnybrook
Grow up, Ambassador.
Not buying crappy US beer pales in comparison.
#ElbowsUp
#BuyCanadian
You can go fuck yourself with broken glass and rusty nails.
Cheers!
Canadians will make their own choices on what they purchase. If we choose to not buy US products we will. Oh wait we already are doing that so too bad so sad for you. Sit in a corner and pout or kick your boss in the ass.
#boycottusa
Your deity made up a crisis so he could ig ore a signed trade agreement all while threatening to take us over.
You're lucky all we did is boycott your shit.
Stay in your little fortress asshole
He's already lying and the asshole hasn't been on the job a day.
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
What's outrageous is that orange turd trying to grind down our economy to force us to surrender our nationhood.
Who is he to tell Canadians what they should buy
Fuck him
And we’re supposed to boycott American stuff but there are still lots of American products being bought.
But yeah, their leaders are intentionally being ignorant to sell the lie to their own people, they don’t care at all how we feel about it
We didn’t. We don’t want to buy your products so they came off the shelf to make room for more our own products. The products the people of Canada want to buy
But no Canadian complained about it. Not that I know about anyway
From what I see in the US, you don't have a clue how to stop him ruining the world and trying to usurp Canada Greenland and Panama.
Fascist fucks, you think you can intimidate us? We the people are the ones deciding not to buy your shitty, increasingly unregulated products.
Suck it
On this administration? How the fuck do these manage to make it through the day while being beyond mentally ill? I’m nowhere near their levels and I’m on five meds to get through the day.
But the fact he’s so angry about it tells me we should stop buying even harder…
The use of the word "outrageous" is hilarious. Take a look in the mirror pal.
We don’t like you maga drooling nazi-appeasing twats.
Until that stops, go fuck yourself.
Go fuck your self.
#BoycottUSATravel
#BoycottUSGoods
#FuckTrump
No one wants your trash anyways
A stupid dick. 🖕
Canada doesn’t want what you’re selling.
Nothing like throwing the first punch and then complaining that you hurt your fist, ambassador.
Like how do you not understand politics affects more than just elections. Yikes.We can’t boo the country that wants to rid us?
Yer dipshit is showing.
"iTz oUtRaJuS u DiNt LiEk gEtTiNg bUlLiEd"
Okay:
I think it's outrageous that you elected a rapist that wants to take over our country
I think it's outrageous that you disappear people to slave labour concentration camps
SUCK MY CANADIAN GIRL DICK FROM BEHIND YOU YANKEE FASCIST SCUM
F DJT
"It's outrageous that you banned American products from your shelves… AFTER WE TOLD THE WORLD WE WERE GOING TO DESTROY YOUR ECONOMY SO THAT WE COULD STEAL YOUR COUNTRY."
Now he can (I usually refrain from profanity but this warrants it) FUCK RIGHT OFF.
#NastyCanadian
And his felon rapist boss.
🇨🇦
And I’m a U.S. citizen. 😄
My deepest apologies to the people of your country. I’m so embarrassed by this ridiculous regime.
Let’s hope we all emerge from this sooner rather than later.
Best wishes from Canada. 🇨🇦
What did this sh*tforbrained f*ck expect was going to happen? 🤦♂️
Well here is the message…
#FuckTrump
#BoycottUSA
#Never51
#CanadaStrong
Trump, Hoekstra, & all the rest of the MAGA morons can go fuck themselves!
Canada has no time for your shit!!!
The US Fed gov WANTS isolation from its allies.
Give it to them. Cut them off ENTIRELY.
We are not the same.