It’s fair to say that your average Canadian on the street (or in their Tim Horton’s) did not respond well to President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on their country. And they fought back in the most Canadian way possible: with a polite, largely implicit boycott of American imports.
While there were some formal attempts to organise boycotts, they were for the most part unnecessary. Canadians simply resorted to turning products from America around on their shelves, so that their logos did not face outward, and resolutely not buying them. Canadian retailers took note, and quietly began looking for substitute products and discontinuing their re-orders of the ones they had. Some were sold at discounted prices just to get rid of them, and where possible, they were returned to their wholesalers.
Canada would not bow to Trump, but neither would they make a fuss: they just got on with things.
