No Butts by Bri Sept. 9, ’26 ****Yes. Given the escalation as of September 9, 2026, by Terrible Tantrum Trump the Tarantula’s economic war against our World’s BEST LOVED TRUE NORTH STRONG, FUN and FREE I think Canada should treat this as a major economic-resilience problem, not simply a tariff dispute.

The situation has moved beyond tariffs: the U.S. has announced bans on selected Canadian dairy, alcohol and motorcycle imports beginning September 29, while also moving to exclude Canadian products from some U.S. government procurement. Canada has responded with matching tariffs on $27.6 billion of U.S. goods, including rates of 15%, 25% and 50%.

🇨🇦 A Canadian Economic Resilience Strategy

The objective shouldn’t be “hurt Americans.” It should be:

Make Canada so economically diversified, productive and self-reliant that no foreign government can easily use Canada’s dependence on one market as leverage.

1. Make “Buy Canadian” a major national economic campaign

Canadians could voluntarily adopt a strong “Canada First — Without Closing Canada” purchasing ethic.

• Buy Canadian-produced goods when comparable alternatives are available.
• Look for Canadian ownership and Canadian production, because simply buying from a Canadian-owned importer doesn’t necessarily support Canadian manufacturing.
• Prioritize Canadian food, clothing, furniture, appliances, building materials and consumer products.
• Canadian retailers could create prominent “Made in Canada” sections.
• Governments could establish a standardized Canadian Origin label that clearly distinguishes:
  • Made in Canada
  • Grown in Canada
  • Canadian-owned
  • Assembled in Canada
  • Imported
• Encourage Canadians to consciously substitute Canadian products for U.S. products where practical.
• Don’t encourage people to waste money replacing perfectly good products merely because they’re American.

The principle: Buy Canadian when practical, not blindly.

2. Dramatically increase Canadian government procurement

This could be one of the most powerful responses.

Federal, provincial and municipal governments spend enormous amounts of money.

Canada should establish a strong “Buy Canadian Public Procurement” preference for:

• Canadian steel
• Canadian aluminum
• Canadian lumber
• Canadian furniture
• Canadian technology
• Canadian software
• Canadian vehicles
• Canadian construction materials
• Canadian agricultural products
• Canadian engineering services
• Canadian telecommunications equipment where appropriate
• Canadian professional services

And the policy should extend to government-funded infrastructure projects.

Canada’s existing response already includes a $2-billion Canada Strong Diversification Fund and other programs intended to help businesses adapt.

The next step should be making government purchasing itself a huge guaranteed domestic customer.

3. Replace the American market — systematically

This is probably the most important long-term objective.

Canada shouldn’t merely say:

“We’re going to sell more to Europe.”

It should create specific export replacement targets.

For example:

🇪🇺 European Union

Expand exports of:

• energy
• agricultural products
• aerospace
• critical minerals
• forestry products
• clean technology
• machinery
• pharmaceuticals
• professional services

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Develop major Canadian-British trade initiatives involving:

• food
• financial services
• aerospace
• technology
• pharmaceuticals
• energy
• education

🇯🇵 Japan

Particularly:

• LNG/energy
• critical minerals
• food
• forestry
• advanced manufacturing
• aerospace

🇰🇷 South Korea

Focus on:

• batteries
• critical minerals
• automobiles
• technology
• energy
• agriculture

🇮🇳 India

Massively expand:

• agricultural products
• potash
• energy
• technology
• education
• professional services

🇦🇺 Australia

Increase cooperation in:

• critical minerals
• mining technology
• defence-related industrial supply chains
• energy
• agriculture
• advanced manufacturing.

Canada already has federal programs specifically aimed at helping exporters diversify internationally.

The strategic goal should be simple:

Every dollar of Canadian exports that moves from excessive U.S. dependence toward another reliable market increases Canada’s resilience.

4. Build a Canadian “Economic NATO”

Not literally NATO—but an economic alliance of reliable trading democracies.

Canada could propose a coalition involving:

🇨🇦 Canada
🇪🇺 European Union
🇬🇧 UK
🇯🇵 Japan
🇰🇷 South Korea
🇦🇺 Australia
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇲🇽 Mexico

with cooperation on:

• critical minerals
• energy
• food security
• technology
• supply chains
• infrastructure
• transportation
• pharmaceuticals
• advanced manufacturing.

The idea would be:

If one member suddenly faces discriminatory trade restrictions, the others help provide alternative markets.

That would make economic coercion substantially harder.

5. Build Canadian supply chains from coast to coast

Canada has an unusual advantage: enormous natural resources, energy, agriculture, skilled workers and a large geographic territory.

But Canada too often exports raw materials rather than maximizing the value created domestically.

Instead of:

Canadian resource → U.S. processing → finished product → Canadian purchase

Canada should pursue:

Canadian resource → Canadian processing → Canadian manufacturing → Canadian/export market

Examples:

Critical minerals

Don’t simply export lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, uranium, etc.

Build:

mine → refining → processing → components → finished products

Forestry

Move further toward:

tree → lumber → engineered wood → furniture → finished construction products

Agriculture

Move toward:

farm → food processing → branded Canadian food → export

Energy

Move toward:

resource → Canadian processing → energy technology → high-value exports

6. Massive Canadian infrastructure acceleration

A trade war creates an opportunity.

Canada could dramatically accelerate:

• rail infrastructure
• ports
• highways
• pipelines where economically/environmentally justified
• electricity interconnections
• transmission lines
• broadband
• airports
• industrial parks
• housing
• factories
• critical-mineral processing facilities.

The government should effectively say:

If a project increases Canadian productivity and reduces dependence on a single foreign market, get it moving.

That creates jobs and increases Canada’s productive capacity.

7. Make Canada dramatically easier to do business in

This is less exciting politically—but potentially enormously important.

Canada should aggressively reduce:

• interprovincial trade barriers
• duplicated regulations
• unnecessary permitting delays
• inconsistent product standards
• transportation restrictions
• professional licensing barriers.

A Canadian company should be able to sell from:

Halifax → Montreal → Toronto → Winnipeg → Calgary → Edmonton → Vancouver

almost as easily as selling within one province.

Canada needs something approaching a true domestic single market.

8. Create a Canadian export “war room”

I’d recommend a permanent federal-provincial Canadian Trade Diversification Command Centre—not military, but modeled on an emergency economic coordination centre.

Its job:

Every week identify:

• American restrictions
• Canadian exporters affected
• available foreign buyers
• alternative markets
• transportation capacity
• financing requirements
• production bottlenecks.

Then match them.

For example:

U.S. blocks Canadian cheese → Canadian government identifies European/Asian/Mexican buyers → financing + transportation support → exporter redirected.

Instead of waiting months for markets to adjust, Canada would actively engineer the transition.

9. Help Canadian companies survive the transition

Canada already has announced substantial support: a further $7.5 billion package, including $1.5 billion for regional tariff-response programs, $500 million in additional BDC liquidity, $2 billion for diversification projects and $3.5 billion in worker/employer supports.

I’d expand that philosophy.

Give affected companies:

• temporary low-interest financing
• export insurance
• working-capital guarantees
• accelerated depreciation
• temporary tax credits for new export markets
• grants for foreign-market certification
• help establishing overseas distribution
• assistance with shipping costs during market transitions.

But there should be conditions:

Public money should help companies become less dependent on the U.S., rather than simply subsidizing permanent losses.

10. Encourage Canadians to vacation in Canada

Your idea here is economically meaningful.

Canadians don’t need to declare:

“Never visit America again.”

A smarter message is:

“Explore Canada First.”

Encourage Canadians to spend more tourism dollars in:

• British Columbia
• Alberta
• Saskatchewan
• Manitoba
• Ontario
• Quebec
• Atlantic Canada
• Northern Canada.

That keeps tourism spending inside Canada.

And Canada could create a national tourism campaign:

🇨🇦 THIS YEAR, DISCOVER HOME.

The same principle applies to conferences, sporting events, concerts and corporate travel.

11. Canadian businesses should actively replace American suppliers

A Canadian company purchasing from the United States could be encouraged to ask:

“Can I source this from Canada?”

If not:

“Can I source it from Mexico, Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia or another trusted partner?”

This is particularly important for:

• machinery
• software
• industrial components
• chemicals
• electronics
• agricultural equipment
• professional services.

The objective isn’t isolation.

It’s supplier diversification.

12. Don’t make the mistake of replacing American dependence with Chinese dependence

This is crucial.

Canada should not respond to American economic coercion by becoming excessively dependent on another single foreign power.

The formula should be:

🇨🇦 Canada + Europe + Asia-Pacific + Mexico + UK + Australia + domestic production

rather than:

🇨🇦 → 🇺🇸

or

🇨🇦 → 🇨🇳

Diversification means many partners.

13. Use Canada’s enormous energy leverage intelligently

Canada has major advantages in:

• oil
• natural gas
• hydroelectricity
• uranium
• critical minerals
• electricity
• clean-energy technology.

Canada should develop more infrastructure allowing it to sell energy to multiple markets, rather than primarily through one market.

That creates both economic resilience and negotiating power.

14. Build a Canadian manufacturing renaissance

Canada should identify strategically important sectors and deliberately grow them.

Priority sectors

🇨🇦 Aerospace
🇨🇦 Automotive
🇨🇦 Batteries
🇨🇦 Critical minerals
🇨🇦 Pharmaceuticals
🇨🇦 Medical equipment
🇨🇦 Agricultural machinery
🇨🇦 Artificial intelligence
🇨🇦 Semiconductors/components
🇨🇦 Robotics
🇨🇦 Clean technology
🇨🇦 Defence/security manufacturing
🇨🇦 Shipbuilding
🇨🇦 Rail equipment
🇨🇦 Construction materials.

Not because Canada should manufacture everything.

Because Canada needs the ability to manufacture strategically important things.

15. Make “Made in Canada” technologically sophisticated

Canadian products shouldn’t be sold as:

“Buy it because it’s Canadian.”

They should become:

“Buy it because it’s excellent—and it’s Canadian.”

That means investing in:

• R&D
• automation
• AI
• robotics
• design
• branding
• productivity
• university-industry partnerships.

Canadian companies need to become more competitive globally, not merely protected domestically.

16. Canadians themselves can create enormous economic pressure

A voluntary consumer movement could be remarkably powerful.

A Canadian Consumer Charter

Whenever practical:

1. Check whether a Canadian alternative exists.
2. Buy Canadian-produced food.
3. Buy Canadian-made products.
4. Support Canadian businesses.
5. Vacation in Canada.
6. Choose Canadian entertainment.
7. Support Canadian manufacturers.
8. Invest in Canadian companies where appropriate.
9. Tell retailers you want Canadian alternatives.
10. Ask businesses where their products originate.

And importantly:

Don’t harass American people or American-owned local businesses.

The issue is government trade policy, not ordinary Americans.

17. Canada should retaliate strategically—not emotionally

This is extremely important.

Canada shouldn’t impose tariffs merely because:

“Trump hurt us, so let’s hurt them.”

Instead:

Target American sectors that have political/economic leverage.

At the same time:

Exempt essential products Canadians genuinely cannot replace cheaply.

That minimizes the damage to Canadian consumers.

Canada’s current matching approach already explicitly focuses counter-tariffs on sectors affected by U.S. measures, including steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics.

18. Build a “Canadian resilience score”

Every major Canadian industry could periodically measure:

% of sales dependent on U.S.

% of inputs dependent on U.S.

Number of alternative foreign markets

Domestic production capacity

Critical supply-chain vulnerabilities

Then establish targets.

For example:

No strategically important Canadian industry should be dangerously dependent on one foreign market.

That would turn diversification into a measurable national project.

🇨🇦 The BIG picture

I’d organize the entire Canadian response around six pillars:

🇨🇦 1. BUY CANADIAN

Strengthen domestic demand.

🌎 2. SELL TO THE WORLD

Aggressively diversify exports.

🏭 3. MAKE IT HERE

Rebuild strategic manufacturing.

🚢 4. CONNECT CANADA

Ports, rail, energy, electricity and infrastructure.

🤝 5. BUILD ALLIANCES

Europe + Asia-Pacific + Mexico + UK + Australia and others.

🧠 6. BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE

Technology, AI, innovation, skills and investment.

And one important strategic warning

I wouldn’t recommend an absolute Canadian boycott of everything American.

That sounds satisfying, but economically it can become counterproductive.

Some American products have no immediate Canadian substitute, and indiscriminate restrictions could increase Canadian prices or hurt Canadian businesses that depend upon U.S. inputs.

A much stronger slogan would be:

🇨🇦 “CANADA FIRST — CANADA OPEN TO THE WORLD.”

Buy Canadian when you can.
Make Canadian when we can.
Sell Canadian everywhere we can.
Trade with everyone we can.
Depend on nobody too much.

That, in my view, is the most powerful long-term answer to economic coercion.

Canada is already moving in this direction: Ottawa says its current strategy is explicitly aimed at building a more resilient and diversified economy, while federal programs are being expanded to help businesses enter new markets.

And given today’s escalation, I’d go considerably further than the measures currently announced. The fact that the U.S. is now moving from tariffs toward outright product exclusions and government-procurement restrictions makes reducing Canada’s single-market vulnerability much more urgent.

If implemented intelligently, this could actually become a Canadian economic renewal project rather than simply a defensive response to Trump. 🇨🇦 Funally terrible Tantrum Tarantula Trumo must dye- his orange head PINK! Sept. 9, ’26 LOL Love, Bri Everyone Worldwide LOVES CANADA butt one Orange head!