While
the unjustified US tariffs imposed on Canada remain in place, and pending a
renegotiation of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that is fair to all three trading partner countries
(Canada, Mexico, USA), we have chosen to boycott all produce reaching
Canada from the USA.
While
that is easily done during the summer, our strategy of avoiding US-sourced
produce may be more difficult during Canada’s off-season, unless Canada’s
grocery chains make a conscious effort to increase their sourcing of produce
from countries other than the USA.
To
motivate Canada’s grocery chains to search for alternative suppliers outside of
the USA, consumers must become more vocal by writing to the three chains
operating in Canada. The contact data for those chains are set out in the
following blog by my son Waldo Rochow: http://blog.rochow.info/2018/08/rotten-trade.html.
