Buying Canadian (and not American)

[Joedelay Highhoe]

This is a pretty wild time to be alive and working in manufacturing in Canada...

Either way, we make a surprising amount of food here - most big American food brands don't import, they have factories in Canada for regulatory and supply chain reasons. So you have to decide between buying very common Canadian-made products or buying the much more difficult Canadian-owned products.

As for vehicles, the Honda Civic and CRV, Toyota RAV4, and Lexus RX are made in Waterloo Region and nearby counties. Does that count as buying Canadian?

Now that I'm in pharmaceutical manufacturing these days, that's a real secret giant in this area (alongside nuclear power components). It's kinda crazy what we still make, despite most people assuming manufacturing is dead and dying.

Manufacturing isn't dead yet, but these tariffs might be the death blow for auto manufacturing in Canada. We export something like $50B of cars to the US every year. The automotive industry employs around 100K people in Ontario. That would be a huge hit to our economy.