Canadian shoppers have cut spending at U.S. stores by up to 60% over border policies and political demands. The speaker frames it as a breakup: Canada is retooling supply chains toward domestic and Mexican producers, replacing American goods with Canadian flags, and won't go back.
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Oh look, there it is. Another day, another American store owner confused as to why Canadians aren't shopping there anymore. Revenue down 60%. And you know what? We're not sorry. We're not even mad. We've just moved on. It's like a breakup where one side keeps texting, "You up?" and the other side is just busy living their best life. For decades, we were your dependable lover. Loyal, predictable. We'd pump your gas, We'd laugh at your stupid Super Bowl ads. We'd buy your cheap cheese. We kept your border towns afloat, your outlet malls in business. But now your border guards are going through our phones, demanding we hand over passwords, asking if we support your president, and if we give the wrong answer to this bizarre loyalty test, we're banned for life. The leaders of your country want to annex us. So we're done. We're done being taken for granted, and it's time you moved on too, because up here in the last few months, we've retooled our entire cross-country supply chain supply chain. Every time I visit the grocery store, more American product is gone. The produce section is pretty much all Canadian and Mexican now. Even our drugstores have little flags showing which products are Canadian. This isn't a phase. This doesn't go back to normal when your circus leaves town. This is it. We're done. Probably for generations. So for once, we're not saying sorry. Keep the hot dogs. Keep the cheese. We've got our own now. You know what it tastes like? It tastes like freedom.
