05-16-2019, 01:13 AM
CBC found this little gem from 1982.
"The City that warned you could lose your job if you didn't 'buy Canadian'"
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/a-1982-made-...-1.5116740
"The City that warned you could lose your job if you didn't 'buy Canadian'"
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/a-1982-made-...-1.5116740
Quote:Buy Canadian. It was a rallying cry that most Canadians had heard many times before.
But this one upped the ante with the argument that "the job you save may be your own!"
[img=460x307.140625]https://i.cbc.ca/1.5116793.1556641595!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/bumper-sticker-from-1982-buy-canadian-campaign-in-cambridge-ont.jpg[/img]
A bumper sticker showing the slogan from the 1982 "Buy Canadian" campaign is seen in the image above. (The National/CBC Archives)
That dramatic slogan was at the centre of a campaign launched in Cambridge, Ont., back in the spring of 1982.
"Cambridge, population about 75,000, right in the centre of Ontario's industrial heartland," the CBC's Sheldon Turcott reported on The National back on May 15, 1982.