Canadian Made Products ???
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darkbeaver.
I'm a little confused regarding your post. was there something wrong with me trying to help someone out that was trying to find Canadian made products?
I'm a little confused regarding your post. was there something wrong with me trying to help someone out that was trying to find Canadian made products?
I'm supporting you and Canadian and local regional products one-hundred percent. Sorry about my sloppy artform.
I realize this is an old posting but ....I checked out Stanfield Underwear and from what I can see, it is still a "made in Canada" product. I bought Stanfield for my husband for years and years but the quality seemed to begin to lack quality and I moved on to another product. Usually a made in Canada lable means pre-shrunk. My husband is a tall man and having things shrink (which is nearly always in length) means something like a T-shirt doesn't stay tucked. I rarely buy anything with a made in India label because their clothing really shrinks. Sears oddly enough, seems to sell "Big and Tall" clothing in their catalogue but not in their stores (where we need it most).
On a more serious note though, I think locally made is more important than Canadian made. For example, if you're a Canadian living in Vancouver and want to buy a certain product that's produced only in Seattle and Halifax, would it make more sense to buy it from Seattle or Halifax?
Personally, I'd answer Seattle. The New Yorker who wants to buy the same product would be wise to buy it from Halifax and not buy American for the sake of buying American.
The same applies to the Government of Ontario's TV adds saying 'Good things grow in Ontario' to promote Ontario agriculture. Again, if I live in Ottawa, I'd rather buy something grown in Gatineau, Quebec, just a car drive away across the border, than from the other end of the province of Ontario just for the sake of buying Ontarian.
The buy Canadian idea is fundamentally flawed on these points and ought to be replaced instead with a buy local campaign. One way t promote that could be to go the way of the Green shift promoted by the Green Party. This would bring the cost of gas up while reducing income taxes. As a result, you could pay less tax by buying locally but would pay more tax by buying from afar. This would not encourage a buy Canadian mentality by encouraging, let's say, a Montrealer to buy a product from Vancouver that he could have bought from New York, but rather a buy local mentality, encouraging you to save money on transport buy buying from as close to where you live as possible.
If the concern is with jobs, then let's just promote free labour movement agreements with the US instead.
But honestly, I don't see the logic in a Halifaxer buying a product from Victoria BC that he could just as easily have purchased from the state of Main. The only reason one would support buy Canadian over buy local is pure unmitigated illogical nationalistic chestbeating.
Personally, I'd answer Seattle. The New Yorker who wants to buy the same product would be wise to buy it from Halifax and not buy American for the sake of buying American.
The same applies to the Government of Ontario's TV adds saying 'Good things grow in Ontario' to promote Ontario agriculture. Again, if I live in Ottawa, I'd rather buy something grown in Gatineau, Quebec, just a car drive away across the border, than from the other end of the province of Ontario just for the sake of buying Ontarian.
The buy Canadian idea is fundamentally flawed on these points and ought to be replaced instead with a buy local campaign. One way t promote that could be to go the way of the Green shift promoted by the Green Party. This would bring the cost of gas up while reducing income taxes. As a result, you could pay less tax by buying locally but would pay more tax by buying from afar. This would not encourage a buy Canadian mentality by encouraging, let's say, a Montrealer to buy a product from Vancouver that he could have bought from New York, but rather a buy local mentality, encouraging you to save money on transport buy buying from as close to where you live as possible.
If the concern is with jobs, then let's just promote free labour movement agreements with the US instead.
But honestly, I don't see the logic in a Halifaxer buying a product from Victoria BC that he could just as easily have purchased from the state of Main. The only reason one would support buy Canadian over buy local is pure unmitigated illogical nationalistic chestbeating.
So lets start with something simple, when you buy something made of wood be sure it is Canadian wood. Grows in all provinces so no need to import from Sweden.
For example, if you're an unemployed Canadian whose skills are not appreciated in Canada but are in great demand in the US, a free labour movement agreement between Canada and the US could allow you to go there to work with nothing but a valid Canadian passport.
If you're an American whose skills are unappreciated in the US but in high demand in Canada, such an agreement would allow you to work in Canada with just a US passport.
This could also involve collaboration between our ministries of education to establish common educational standards for various trades and professions so as to make our workforce more mobile.
To take an example, let's say Western Canada and the Eastern US were experiencing labour shortages while the rest of North America was in recession. This would allow a Seattle resident of limited means to just take a bus across the border and find a job in Vanocuver, as long as he has a valid US passport; and a Halifaxer would be free to go to New York to find work in the same manner, without having to spend all his money crossing the country and be further away from family and friends than he needs to be. Let's put people and families first. This way a poor Halifaxer who could not afford to cross the country could just cross the border, much less expensive and saves him money and the taxpayer money in having to pay for his social assistance owing to stupid laws blocking him from finding work.
Also, does it make sense to have a Canadian garage being shortstaffed while a fully qualified American mechanic just across the border is unemployed? Same the other way around.
Why could Canada and the US not adopt a 'scratch my back and I scratch your's approach to things rather than you kick me and I kick you back approach, which only hurts the most vulnerable Canadians in the end.
We complain when people are on welfare, but then insist on having 1001 laws to keep them from finding work. Restrictions on freedom of labour movement between nations and trade restrictions are among those silly restrictions. If we insist on preventing people from finding work, then e have none to blame but ourselves for the unemployment in our countries.
Let's have our countries work together to make work accessible to all rather than always competing to undermine each others efforts only to have both countries suffer in the end?
Why was it a shame? You bought what suited your needs. Maybe the Canadian products that didn't suit your specific needs suited the needs of a particular American family for whom the American products did not meet the necessary requirements.
It all balances itself out in the end.