'My sacrifice': Canadians boycott US products as Trump feeds 'Buy Canada' surge [View all]
Source: USA Today
Updated May 3, 2025, 5:10 p.m. ET
TORONTO − At the Madison Avenue Pub, American liquor is no longer for sale. The popular neighborhood Toronto bar, inside a brick Victorian building blocks from the University of Toronto’s campus, is replete with billiards tables and a full rack of liquor. A sign outside advertises Tuesday night trivia and another inside reads, “A good selection of beers from around the globe.”
Almost.
Since President Donald Trump set Canada in his sights, one country is conspicuously off the menu. “It's not acceptable. You want to put your tariffs on, go do whatever you want to do, but don't threaten and don't humiliate people,” said Chris Haslett, the bar’s director of operations. The pub's boycott of American booze is “personal,” he said.
Trump’s branding of Canada as the “51st state” and the wide-reaching tariffs he has threatened to impose have pushed infuriated Canadians to boycott American products and inspired a “Buy Canada” movement that could take a toll on the U.S. economy.
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