25 Replies to “The Next Great Toilet Paper Freak Out”

  1. Experts say? Who are these experts and why should I believe them? Where are the concrete numbers that would make or break their expert advice? Nowhere to be seen so what I have is just another opinion. And I will be polite: “Opinions are like noses – most people have one”.

    1. Paper? Ancient technology?

      Try wiping your nether regions with your iPhone.

      Paper has been made from “wood pulp”, on an industrial scale for at least 120 years.

      Before that, most paper was derived from cotton fibres. (better quality paper, as well).

      The rise of mass printing needed bulk paper. Initially the wood-pulp paper was “bleached using Hydrogen Peroxide, a relatively slow and expensive process. Then some clever little Vegemite took Chlorine based bleach to a new level.

      The great downside of chlorine / “acid” bleaching of paper is that not ALL of the acidic residue is rinsed out.

      Check your “libraries”. Note how pretty much any book or newspaper printed since about 1930, is “browning / getting “dusty”?

      That is the residual acid eating your SF, Crime, Romance, etc., novels.

      Check out your toilet paper: snowy white, prints optional.

      Wryly amusing, given its intended use.

      So, why not recycle the old “toilet-paper shortage” crisis, one more time. Funny how we seem to be propelled through one imaginary crisis after another. Oddly enough, ALL of these assorted “crises” seem to have the same “solution”. MORE GOVERNMENT. Basically as per the old expression:

      “SOLUTIONS in search of Problems”.

      Before toilet paper, there was a rag on a stick; literally. Crude but effective; just be careful how you pick up that stick.

      Hence, the old expression about getting or grasping “the wrong end of the stick”.

    1. Me too. All 3 of my toilets have heated, illuminated, bidet toilet seats. Wash and dry. Touchless freshness. Hey … the Grand Hyatt Kauai had em … and so I NEEDED em at my house too. Now every day is a resort day! And Sheryl Crow is happy.

  3. Disregard ANY article that has the headline “experts say…” I expected a bit better from the National Post

    Also disregard ANYTHING reads “X [person or entity] says…” as this is dead giveaway that this is a slated, tendentious advocacy piece, usually with an army of PR flaks, focus groups and the like, all behind it (our dying MSM is so hard up for content that they will print virtually anything)

    And my octogenarian parents still think God gives the media its stories.

    1. Well, I don’t know about that entirely Eric.

      This screws Quebec, BIG TIME.
      I LIKE IT!

  4. Toilet paper …… no bud lite …… Jack Daniels ….. back to toilet paper. The important things in life. Why is the avg Canadian so simple minded .

  5. Donald J. Trump … the GREATEST Environmental President since Jimmy Carter put a meaningless solar panel on the White House roof. Donald J Trump is …

    SAVING CANADIAN TREES!
    SAVING CANADIAN FORESTS!!
    STOPPING THE CLEAR-CUTTING.
    PRESERVING THE CANADIAN RAIN FOREST
    PRESERVING CARBON CAPTURE OFFSETS
    OMG! Canadian environmentalists should be CHEERING President Donald J. Trump!

    Who else should be cheering PDJT? Sheryl Crow. Whoa! Wait. This article insists that toilet paper is ONLY made from leftover wood pulp from construction lumber? Hence Sheryl was lying. Using more than one square of toilet paper wasn’t causing MORE trees to die. Nope. According to this article … it’s only the slowdown in construction lumber that causes toilet paper shortages. Phew. That’s good to know … now I can go back to using enough toilet paper to isolate my hand from my crack. And now I can wake up early tomorrow and buy 6-bales of COSTCO tp before it sells out. Thanks for encouraging my irrational panic buying and hoarding again, National Post.

  6. Good thing there’s lots of birch trees on the Rez. Basswood leaves in summer.

  7. I read, forget where, that 95 percent of Canadian toilet paper comes from the US-if true the price is going to up big.

    1. A statistical lie:

      Exports In 2023, Canada exported $1.62B in Toilet Paper, making it the 6th largest exporter of Toilet Paper in the world. At the same year, Toilet Paper was the 57th most exported product in Canada. The main destination of Toilet Paper exports from Canada are: United States ($1.59B), China ($6.17M), United Kingdom ($6.1M), Mexico ($3.8M), and Australia ($3.19M).

      The fastest growing export markets for Toilet Paper of Canada between 2022 and 2023 were United States ($219M), Netherlands ($1.93M), and Italy ($1.08M).

      Imports In 2023, Canada imported $1.44B in Toilet Paper, becoming the 4th largest importer of Toilet Paper in the world. At the same year, Toilet Paper was the 76th most imported product in Canada. Canada imports Toilet Paper primarily from: United States ($1.25B), China ($124M), Mexico ($22.6M), Germany ($10.1M), and Netherlands ($3.78M).

      The fastest growing import markets in Toilet Paper for Canada between 2022 and 2023 were United States ($67.6M), China ($14.9M), and Germany ($5.04M).

      https://is.gd/jZIsei
      No, I don’t know why we export and import almost the same amounts.

  8. Brian McClay is the “expert” in question, he has 40 years of experience with Pulp, and obviously is getting money to promote this line of thinking.

    It would be useful to know if the Bloomberg News “Journalists” Mathieu Dion and Thomas Seal reached out to this person, or he reached out to them, and really should be disclosed in the first paragraph,

  10. Once could get all they wanted from an office or grocer wholesaler. Frankly, I don’t give a crap. Please pass the preparation H

  12. If the pulp from Canada is tariffed on export to the US to be made into TP then imported to Canada where it is tariffed because it came from the US it doesn’t take an “Expert” to figure out that the price is going to go up.

    Governments get into a “trade war” and all the idiots are cheering them on, I assume because they’re too stupid to understand that the Canadian government is going to make money off it, the American government is going to make money off it and all the cheering idiots are going to be poorer.

      2. I don’t want my government taxing me to buy imported products. I have no say in whether I have to or not. I find it odd that both Canadians and Americans are cheering their governments on to tax them even more. I honestly think most people don’t understand what a tariff it. I think if you asked the cheering idiots the question “do you want your government to tax you 25 percent on every good you buy from another country” they would not answer “of course I want the price of everything I buy to go up, why wouldn’t I want you to take even more money off me.”

  13. dont laugh. when world hyperinflation hits, two forms of paper will become currency.
    cigarette paper, any form, pkged and in the form of cigarettes, and
    toilet paper. talk about detecting fecal bacteria on the currency . . . .
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dirty-money/
    heh heh.
    consider this my comeback to kenji’s crack about his ‘crack’ lol
    anything for a laugh ha ha ha !!!

  16. I researched this last week. The US can replace the TO from Canada easily.

    This is a nothing burger.

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