I don’t know anything, you didn’t see me, and you can’t prove a thing.
I’m sure, because Trump said it, progressives and media across the country will unite in denying cross border shopping exists.
I don’t know anything, you didn’t see me, and you can’t prove a thing.
I’m sure, because Trump said it, progressives and media across the country will unite in denying cross border shopping exists.
Tariffs? There are no tariffs on American shoes. And the US exports 4 times as much dairy to Canada as Canada exports to the US. A lot of disinformation going around.
Sure, us canucks are such charitable folk that we love to go shopping in the US and buy things that are more expensive out of sheer generosity. No-one ever, ever buys anything in the states because it is cheaper, nooo, that surely cannot be!
As for dairy, who ever said that the amounts for each specific product must be equal. That would make absolutely no sense at all, except for a lefty who thinks one only trades something which one already has. The point on dairy tariffs is that it make them more expensive than they would otherwise be just to protect the quebec slogs. Don’t believe me, let’s kill those tariffs and see what happens!
Disinformation indeed, just look in the mirror – you are the cause (and effect) of your own ignorance.
“Disinformation indeed, just look in the mirror”
So you are saying that there are actually tariffs on American shoes. And you are saying US doesn’t export 4 times as much to Canada as Canada exports to the the US. I am in awe of your intelligence.
What I am saying is a message that you clearly have no interest or intention of listening to.
You really should not look to Cathy Newman as an example of how to ask questions or have a conversation.
There are many shoes sold in the US that were manufactured elsewhere. Those shoes have high tariffs on them.
Well of course there are tariffs on American shoes. Went to Detroit to pick up my youngest son a suit, shirt, a tie, a belt and a pair of shoes for his Confirmation a few years ago. Total cost was in the vicinity of US$110. When we came back to Canada we had to pay customs and duty on those items.
Bull tweet. If they were made in the US, you should have paid just HST.
The reason Canada does not export dairy to the US as I understand it is because the quota the farmers own in total restricts them to just 10% over total domestic requirements. They are not allowed to own more cows than that.
True, there is a scheme that certain amount of milk or something is allowed to be imported by the milk cartel from the US.
It is processed into cheese or whatever and sold in here and the US as Canadian.
Heh, some clever scheme.
Uh….it has to do with the personal exemption of how much you can bring across the border. By the way, did you ever get your head around the fact that Canadian milk is subsidized far, FAR more than U.S. milk, given the idiotic “supply management” system?
That must be why a gallon is $4.89 in Alberta and $0.99 in Montana.
That must be one hell of a store where you buy that Montana milk:
“This week, a gallon of milk cost $3.98 at Walmart, $3.99 at Sweetbay, $4.05 at Publix and $4.35 at Winn-Dixie. For perspective, that’s up from $3.83 in January last year, $3.68 in January 2012, and $3.08 in January 2011.”
From the Tampa Bay Times
http://www.tbo.com/news/business/holy-cow-milk-prices-are-on-the-rise-20140108/
This is inline with our experience this past winter in Florida.
I seem to remember the pathetic Canadian media howling about cross border shopping a while back.
Now they are going to tell us it was all a lie?
Google: Canada cross border shopping crisis
Just go onto Walmart.ca and then look at the item again on Walmart.com. In fact the whole economy of towns like Belligham are based on Canadian cross border shoppers
As far as I’m concerned Canadian border guards have no moral authority to question anything I have at the border when they’re helping illegals cross with open arms.
DAMNED good point….!!
F@cking A!
Actually they have no moral authority to question anything I am taking across the border so long as it isn’t NBC or something crazy like that.
Once again, the Canadian media and their Liberal masters are exactly WRONG.
My entire life as a western Canadian, cross-border shopping has been a common practice of the middle-class. Here in BC, it has been a weekly or even daily habit for some living right next to the border, mainly for gas and milk. As a kid during our family’s frequent US camping vacations(Man, I am long overdue for a visit to the Oregon coast), shopping was part of the adventure. Ha, you couldn’t get M&M’s in Canada back then. My mom would buy a half dozen Final Net hairspray at a time the savings were so huge.
Label it taxes, duties, tariffs, gouging, whatever you like, Trump is right that Canadian consumers are being f^cked over by our own government’s policies.
And Travis, we don’t have border GUARDS here in Canada, we have border CASHIERS.
The only thing Trudeau actually shopped for in person would have been for his exotic cars and his weed. His groceries and other mundane sundries would’ve been done by staffers. Can you truly imagine this guy stopping at the local Walmart to pick up toilet bowl cleaner? (even before he became a politician–trust fund babies don’t tend to do that)
I say, I had no idea you could procure one of those from Walmart? Heavens knows I rarely if ever would lower mythef to cwoss the thweshowld of thuch an estabwishment. All this time we had the house manager arrange that servith from a weputable temporary agenthy.
Yes lets all get distracted by what Trump said.
Meanwhile the clock is ticking and if juthtin can’t get his trade dispute with the US resolved soon it will be the hill he falls on.
He will have to give up something to get this resolved and the sooner he does the less damage it will do to the liberals come election time next fall.
He’s got about a year before he becomes the 2019 Thanksgiving turkey if this is still not resolved.
You
hit the nail on the head.
People and especially our MSM should (but wont), stop LISTENING to the Donald and simply watch what he DOES …. that my friends is what matters. This commentary is simply for HIS audience…not us. Midterms are coming..??
That article was just a bunch of gibberish – If you live close enough to the border…like Cornwall, Brockville or in Langley, then yea it makes sense to go to the US, fill your tank and buy milk & cheese. But for the most part at a .75/Dollar…not worth it at all…especially Electronics.
We are held hostage here by Quebec on Dairy….being held hostage by them is NEW..??
Near Cornwall, gas is $1.26/l on the Canadian side and $3.10/gal on the US side.
1. Convert CAD to USD, CAD $1.26 is $US 0.95
2. Convert US gallons to Canadian liters, 1.0 US gal = 3.78541.
3. $3.10/gal = $0.89/l
4. Savings by filling up in US is $0.95 – $0.89 = $0.06/l
Total savings is about US $3.00 for a 50 liter fill up and you burn a few liters both ways getting there and back. Not worth it at the current CAD price.
Joseph made a good point. Canadians are easily distracted by Trump noise and we end up missing the point.
Steve from Rockwood, your math is wrong.
$3.10 US$/gal / 3.78541 = $0.819 US$/l
$0.819 US$/l * 1.26 = $1.03 Can $/l
Difference of $1.26 -$1.03 = .23 a l
Therefore, on a 50 l fill, the saving is 50 *.23 = $11.50
Now that is worth it if you live, say in Whiterock BC, or Emerson Manitoba, Windsor ON…..
And the price in ND, was running about $2.79 a gal/US$ a couple of months ago, for PREMIUM!
Yeah, and it’s gasoline imported from Canada.
I don’t dare look at the price for premium at a Canadian pump.
What? Wrong? Again? How can that be?
Thanks AtF. My eyes saw 89 and not 81.9. Dang. But still, isn’t saving $11.50 little dollars or did I become too rich to care? I wouldn’t hop in my car two to three times a week for half an hour each time to save $11.50.
Measure twice. Cut once. 🙂
I don’t care if people buy shoes or jeans or their entire wardrobe in the US nor where it was originally made nor if they pay Canadian tax / tariff / duty on these items. It’s all a “so what?” to me. I’ve met people in the US border towns that I know from Canada, knew they’d gone there simply to shop their weekend away and had no intention of paying anything extra to the gov’t for their endeavor. Perhaps I should mention auto repairs here too.. just saying.
I don’t care if my neighbor buys liquor in Alberta and transports it to Saskatchewan without paying tax on these items. Not at all, not even remotely.
Have Canadian border security people and RCMP stopped the flow of illegal drugs? By direction of the federal Liberal party, do they continue to look the other way and often help illegal migrants into Canada even while they walk across the border from the USA, which is clearly a “safe country”?
#FaithGoldy
Was living in the deep south of Okanagan, 1 mile north of the border.
Bought most of everything in Oroville.
Bought the stuff in the US because it was a lot cheaper than at home.
They, whoever they are will say, support your local sheriff sort of speak.
The way it works though is the local business gets rich by being ever so patriotic and the local schlep gets the shaft by paying way more then otherwise.
By the way, today it is nor even worthwhile to shop immediately south of the border.
Spend a month in Tsawwassen (pop. 674, 2006) this spring, apparently the statistics Canada does not know the population of the town. My rough estimate would be about 4 to 6 thousand.
In that span of time, gas in town ranged from $1.45 CAD to $1.58 CAD, up and down as the winds blew.
In Point Roberts, (pop. 1,314, 2010) the gas was mostly kept under $1 US/litre, they do the sales in litres there as not to confuse the northern crowd. There are about 8 gas stations.
In Tsawwassen there are maybe 4 gas stations.
As you journey further south the gas got progressively cheaper. The least expansive it was in a place called Mount Vernon, around $3 US/gallon.
In Seattle its more, the place wallows in money.
Current price in Omak Washington, just across the Border from us, $1.14 Can. per liter. Price in B.C. Okanagan, $1.429 per liter. and up.
That’s a saving of 28 cents per liter. My pickup has a 140 liter gas tank, so if I pull in to an Omak station with only 40 liters left, I will save $28 on a fill up.
The American dollar in the U.S. has much more purchasing power than our dollar does in Canada.
On the bright side, our PM is much more popular in the world than the American President. That means a lot when you’re trying to put over priced food on the table.
Only twats, twits and turds like Trudeau its just that there’s so many of them.
Let’s see:
– drive down to California, buy new tires, drive off the nubs coming back to BC.
– car stereos installed in US, old plate covers come in handy
– clothes
etc, etc, etc.
Nope, ain’t happening; never did.
Economic migrants are dwarfed by the foraging abilities of the postmodern click consumer clique.
While I have no doubt there is no way to logically argue with pure emotion, the amount of accompanying hate that comes from this ridiculous TDS idiocy can still be shocking.
Witness the child of privilege, never wanting for anything, a conscience perhaps? What a piece of work though.
“Oscar-nominated actor Peter Fonda called on a mob to “rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles.”
Read on for an amazing testament of pure hatred masquerading as anger.
He should head for Golden Pond and take a chill pill.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/06/20/peter-fonda-rip-barron-trump-from-his-mother-put-in-cage-with-pedophiles/
I am pleased to read that Melania personally contacted the Secret Service to report this direct threat to the First Family. I sincerely hope the Secret Service CONTACTS and INTERVIEWS this unhinged leftist tool … and if necessary to protect Barron Trump … JAILS this dangerous leftist.
It’s been my observation that certain words are so commonly used in Progressive Leftist screeds that it is like requirement …..a trademark even. Can you guess the word? Time’s up. It’s the word “Fuck”. Nearly every single tweet, rant, or pronouncement by the left includes this word. Fonda is certainly no exception.
Ah yes, the Fonda family. Henry with his killer blue eyes and sorta weird way of talking , Jane with her sexy body and empty head, and Peter with ….. well with the name Fonda. Though I’m sure there are worse actors than Peter, I’m hard pressed to name one. Easy Rider was not a great movie though it did launch the careers of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, two actually good actors. It was the first ……and last ….. interesting Peter Fonda film.
Easy Rider was not a great movie though it did launch the careers of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, two actually good actors.
I agree that Easy Rider was an awful movie.
A bit of a correction, though. Hopper’s career goes back to the mid-1950s. Watch for him in Giant and Rebel Without A Cause. Later, he was in a number of westerns, such as The Sons of Katie Elder, True Grit, and Hang ‘Em High. Now, if you want a chuckle, watch for him as Napoleon Bonaparte in The Story of Mankind, regarded by many critics as one of the worst movies ever made.
Nicholson’s movie career is almost as long as Hopper’s. He was in a number of flicks directed by Roger Corman (including The Little Shop of Horrors) and he was also writing scripts well before ER.
But, yes, ER did make Nicholson a household name.
Mind if I weigh in guys? Easy Rider was a cult classic. Considering that Boomers were coming of age when this Indie film was made it was ahead of its time for the message it sent: no to war and yes to long hair, drugs, and mistrust of the Establishment. A hippie was warned that his long hair could get him snuffed out. The film was one of the first to feature reefer madness.
I saw the film many years after it appeared in theatres and enjoyed it because it featured music by Steppenwolf. “Born to Be Wild” is still played on the R & R radio channels even today. Acting was okay and actors were easy on the eyes.
The film was made for about $400,000. It grossed $60 million. That alone was impressive.
While living in Okanagan, did some renovations on the house.
Went to Penticton to check a window price in Rona.
Went to Omak, US to check the price at Home Depot.
The price difference was, without making it a big deal as it were, in hundreds of dollars, what ever the exchange was at the time. Did not have to -pay the Washington 7% sales tax at that time.
Even in Calgary, I often shop across the border…..on E-bay.
Looked around yesterday for a pair of Glass Headlamps for my 06 GMC Duramax…pretty much every wrecker In Calgary wanted $120-150 per Headlamp USED ..with no garantee that the Rubber outer gasket would come with them.
Bought a pair BRAND NEW (w/gaskets), from the US at $ 89.00 USD Shipping incl. and no import fees either.
Ironically I almost NEVER buy anything on eBay FROM Canada. I’ve found the shipping costs are outrageously high, and even had one large item held in customs and slapped with a big duty to get out of customs. So much for NAFTAs claim of “Free Trade”.
There is a great skit by the Air Farce years ago about a couple from Winnipeg (?) returning to Canada and being stopped by an immigration guard of East Indian decent who questions whether they are really Canadians returning home. The couples frustration increases to the point where they go on a rant about foreigners coming to their country, taking Canadian jobs and then making things difficult for Canadians like themselves. The man of East Indian decent starts laughing and says “OK, I believe you. You are definitely Canadian”. Or something to that effect…
For the past three years, I’ve spent lots of time in Idaho and Washington and have saved thousands on groceries, books, and shipping costs. I just had everything delivered to the hotel I stayed at and put it in my backpack/carryon. Boneless, skinless chicken for the price of drumsticks here, homogenized milk for $2.89/gallon US, organic, grass fed milk for what we pay for 2%, fruit, whole chicken, cereal, canned fruit and veggies, steak. I’ve basically not shopped for groceries in Canada for three years and I live in Calgary.
“Anything to declare?”
“$XXXXXX in groceries.” Never got into detail unless they asked but always the correct amount.
“Drive safe!”
Winnipeg weekend newspapers are all adds for Grand Forks and Fargo ND accomodations, shopping, and entertainment.
So that explains all those 1,000+ mile trips south to dog shows. We’re onto your scam, Kate!
I live 30 minutes from the Cornwall border crossing. Lots of people go across the border to shop and fill up with cheap gas on the Akwesasne reserve. The UPS Store in Massena charges a $1 recycling fee for the boxes and packaging that their Canadian customers leave behind and some days there is a lot of cardboard in the bins. I declare the car parts I’m bringing back for the simple reason that I’m not going to jeopardize my security clearance which my federal government job requires to save a few bucks on taxes.
We need to start putting Canadian Children into wire monkey cages until their parents prove they have not bought too many cigarettes.
Good idea, when we shop or visit Canada you can put our kids into wire monkey cages.
“Mr. Trump is almost certainly referring to — and distorting — an opinion piece by Isabel Vincent, a Canadian journalist, that was published last week in The New York Post about how she and her relatives skirted duties by sneaking jeans, shoes and other goods across the border from the United States.
Ms. Vincent described how her nephew hid two pairs of expensive Italian shoes in his backpack to ferry them to a designer based in Toronto. She wrote that an acquaintance removed the price tags and made new outdoor equipment look dusty to smuggle in what “he simply couldn’t find in Canada.”
While Ms. Vincent is probably neither the first nor last person to have smuggled cheaper or rare goods into Canada (as a few Twitter users have admitted) the vignette does nothing to bolster Mr. Trump’s current dispute with Canada over renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he has long denounced as unfair to the United States.
Under Nafta, Canada does not impose tariffs on footwear made in the United States. Nor does the United States tax shoes imported from Canada.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/politics/fact-check-trump-canadians-smuggling-shoes-tariffs.html
American made shoes? Same section of the store as bottled unicorn tears? Where exactly is the U.S. state of Vietnam, where all of my shoes and work boots are made, expensive name brand shoes no less. Try to find a Canadian that hasn’t smuggled shoes or clothing into Canada.
I think people are confusing the extra cost of goods in Canada with duties or protectionism within certain industries (e.g. dairy) or taxes (gasoline). While this is true in many cases, this price differential is often due to manufacturers, distributers or retailers hosing Canadians. I believe this is known as “in country pricing” and was a big deal when the Canadian dollar was at par with the U.S. dollar. One of the more egregious examples was the Chevrolet Corvette which had a base U.S. price of $44,000 and a base price in Canada of $66,000 (the Cdn. dollar was at par at the time).
Many Canadians are non-declaring cross border shoppers. Mordecai Richler wrote about it in Barney’s Version. A CIDA rep told me about her mom’s tax and duty avoiding methods. Some of my communal minded neighbours slip and slide on shoe smuggling but toe the line on importing dairy products with multiple trips in a day with a 14 passenger van. Many American border towns are built on pumping gas and selling milk (yes, that’s how Americans export so much dairy).
my border inspection story:
whilst living in St Catharines, took a side trip to the really high bridge @ Lewiston/Queenston to take a panorama shot.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Lewiston-Queenston_Bridge_from_Niagara_Gorge.jpg/1920px-Lewiston-Queenston_Bridge_from_Niagara_Gorge.jpg
parked at the Cdn border inspection bldg and walked to the mid point of the bridge. click click click.
walked back, did a Uey out of the parking space.
Q how long ya bin outta da cuntry?
A I havent.
etc etc