“Product Of Canada”

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1. Quite easy. Simply change the definition of ‘Product of Canada’ to include situations where as little as 5% value added by putting imported oranges into a bag now qualifies. Done.

   1. Well … TBF … that’s what you’ve been doing with cheap Communist Chinese steel for decades …

      1. Do you have a Chinese iPhone?

         1. Yes … because I prefer communist countries be polluted with all the nasty chemicals and heavy metals … so we can keep Palo Alto clean for all the Chai Tea and Boba moms. And their slavish labor keeps the cost down to $1,200. for my base model iPhone. And yes, it’s great having the Apple Spaceship in Cupertino … as they have more $$ cash on hand than any other corporation in the world. But the work in Apple Park is all CLEAN and WHITE COLLAR.

            So yes, we Americans should live pristine lives while some other DUMP of a country becomes our trash heap. What? That’s elitist? That’s racist? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Mommmmmaaaaaa … I’m only thinking of Silicon Valley’s children!! Who, BTW are MOSTLY Asian. By far.

            1. I thought you’d be buying American.

2. Retailers drew the correct conclusion after the last election: Canadians are stupid and they believe anything.

   1. Famous saying in advertising – No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public!

   2. That’s it. Once they figured out how stupid Canadians are they stepped on the accelerator.

3. Are they referring to the sign?

   1. Do oranges grew in Canada? What’s next, Ontario pineapples?

      1. They come from Orangeville north of Toronto

         1. LOL, Good one

4. If all companies and citizens of Canada behaved as government in Canada does, that is, never tell the truth about anything, always deceive, just say and do whatever you’d like without fear of repercussions while saying “we tried our best and we’re doing this FOR YOU”, this is who we are now. I have hope yet for Canadian made coffee, because why not? As long as it actually weighs 1 kilo if the label says “1 kilo” I’m good.

   Remember back in the 70’s. Ladas and Volvos were being sold in Canada with a sticker on the back window which said “assembled in Canada” … I don’t know what the tax scheme was which led to that but the #Libranos were ruling the federal gov’t, my guess is that the wheels were attached in Halifax and that enabled them to place that sticker, with tax savings, and never mind how much value was actually being added in Halifax.

   Who brought rules to Canada which said country of origin must be stated? The gov’t did.
   Ask them about it.

   1. Your dead right on the coffee. Bought any lately ? I’ve been buying Safeway’s house brand Canadian roasted beans from Columbia. They just jumped in price from $17.00 to $27.00. Well how could that be. Turns out that no coffee roasters in Canada actually gets their beans from the actual source country. So these beans are grown in Columbia shipped to a USA green bean distributor on I assume a 9% tariff, then they are shipped to Canada on a 25% counter tariff and on to the Canadian roaster. So the Canadian Government is solely responsible for that whooping increase. So what can the roaster do about it. Basically nothing as they would have to go make arrangements with the Columbians, but that ain’t gonna happen. So thanks for that Elbows up Crowd.

      On the Volvos however Halifax plant was a great plant and it was a full assembly plant with a 25 % Canadian content from about 1963 to 1998, but that was back when Canada had pride actually built stuff and did it well. The Halifax plant was actually the best plant in Volvos whole chain. It truly is a great Canadian story. Here’s the history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJltxRKTIYk&t=2084s Cheers Seb

      1. Exactly. I found out the same problem when I bought coffee beans – 40% more expensive in a week. But I’m pretty sure the Ladas were roasted in Canada.

5. Whwt are you on about? Obviously Canada has massive greenhouses where we grow oranges…Elbows Up is a joke.

   1. “Buy Local” !!

      Why? Because it saves the environment or something. It sticks it to “the Americans” or something. It sticks it to that fascist badOrangeman or something. And who doesn’t want to save the environment except a bunch of old and dying people who visit that nasty anti-Democratic blog SDA? Because buying local hothouse oranges grown in Nova Scotia “saves the environment” or something. And yeah, they’re gonna cost a little more in carbon taxes to heat the greenhouses to 85 deg.F in the winters -35 deg.F global warmed temps … but who doesn’t think fresh, local, Vit.C isn’t worth it!?

      /sarc.

6. Canadian oranges? There’s a chance the “Global Warming” nutters may be onto something after all.

   However, I’m going to reserve judgement until this year’s crop of Calgary bananas comes in.
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   What? You say the are going bananas in Calgary, not growing bananas in Calgary?

   ……Well, then……….. nevermind.

   1. Ugh, don’t remind me. I got super bad food poisoning from eating a Nenshi and the Bronconnier gave me the runs.

      1. Not to mention the rash I got when I touched a Notley bush.

7. You can buy Idiot Sticks here cheaper than anywhere.
   They’re salted Liberally, but are nut free!
   They’re found in the Self-Destruct aisle next to Karen’s Dirty Beaver Pies.

8. Yeah but at least I can drink my Molson Canadian and still feel patriotic… What do you mean it’s owned by Coors?

   1. Molson Coors. Half Canadian owned. HQs in Montreal and Chicago. Still a crappy foul tasting beer. Just the facts.

9. L – “Product of Canada” navel oranges? There is only one way that could be true.
   If Mark Carney annexed Florida. Those 3.3 million Canadians, who travelled to Florida last
   winter; those white-haired, retired pensioners must be more rambunctious there, then they are here.

   On the other hand, Lieberalandia is a utopia(literally, a no where land), a place where words
   mean and reality is; whatever they say it is. A gov’t. Psy-Op worked to produce a most convenient Panic-demic. That scared Canadians into giving up the very idea of self-government and having Constitutional Rights.

   Then a second Psy-Op brainwashed 60 % of voters. to forget 9 yrs of tyranny and being left a
   life of indentured servitude to the state.

   Then a third Psy-Op convinced 60 % of voters that Donald J. Trump was on their ballot.

   If the Legacy Media pretends navel oranges are a product of Canada. Most will believe Carney
   made it so. Maybe, if the West leaves now. They won’t even notice, until the Carney Liberals
   produce a budget in say… 2035.

10. It’s all good as long as we do nt export any of our Canadian oranges to those mean yankees

11. I’m surprised they don’t have an LPC Elbows-Up with the maple leaf as the head logo. Trump and Carney likely negotiated this as Canada’s response to the latest threat of more tariffs. When the mindless mushy middle determine election outcomes, don’t expect reason to ensue.

12. Weirdly enough, there are such things as Canadian bananas. An indoors marijuana farm near Lethbridge got repurposed and is selling them in Alberta.

    1. I’ve seen a few videos of a guy with a greenhouse growing bananas in the frozen north, but its just a hobby. No way its viable. Bananas from central America are 50 cents a pound. If the weed growers couldn’t make a profit at $1000 a pound, with a crop that only takes 4 months to grow… bananas and oranges, no chance.

       1. I recall reading that bananas grew on the Nahani river but they were guarded by headless trappers.

13. Whats that French Speaking Shithole that our government pours money into?
    Hiati.
    After we get through importing all the thugs and murders from there ..maybe we can use that wasteland ..to grow Real “Canadian tropical Fruit” instead of Justine’s friends..

14. Down here in the states we’ve heard about the Yukon Orange Groves, but we assumed they were mythological. Our mistake.

15. Now that it is well advertised I’ll be putting my orange plantation in Prince Albert up for sale. I expect that when the Carney government announces their plan for the high speed train to Prince Albert I’ll have dozens of offers pouring in.

16. It’s almost impossible to find any U.S. citrus in the major grocery chains; it’s all from Argentina or South Africa, and sometimes Spain. Walmart is the only store here where I’ve found U.S. oranges. Citrus from the Southern Hemisphere is garbage. Give me a Florida orange or grapefruit any day.

    When I was growing up, my dad was a Produce Manager at an IGA and we had the best oranges, apples, and bananas. I remember him saying the best Navel oranges (at the time) came from California. I’d settle for one from Florida today.

    1. So your dad was an orange man? Little did he know that would become a slur.

    2. Not much better in most of the US. We get two varieties of seedless naval oranges from California.
       One orange flesh and pink Cara Cara. December through April. Rest of the year it’s all south america.
       Haven’t seen a Florida orange (or any orange with seeds) in decades. Some kind of citrus greening disease in Florida makes them only suitable for juice.

17. I had no idea the Orange Lodge was still active in Canada.

18. Even if Canada is the 51st state, I don’t think that means we took over the other 50 states or even just Florida or California.

19. I’m to the point now where I will not buy something from a store if it has a maple leaf tag on it. Reflexive anti-Americanism exploited for marketing purposes. Hideous.

    1. “I’m to the point now where I will not buy something from a store if it has a maple leaf tag on it. Reflexive anti-Americanism exploited for marketing purposes. Hideous.”

       Agreed. Even the damn taxi companies in Vancouver are trying to exploit this for the sake of profits…many now have big signs in their back windows proclaiming that “Uber and Lyft are American-based – Support Canadian taxis” or some nonsense. I find it offensive that they would think I am so easily manipulated.

20. I thought we grew navel oranges for our military?

21. Since ‘Product of Canada’ means that 98% of direct costs of the product are Canadian, it is clearly an error. You can untwist your panties any time.