I came here to say just this. This is something the press—most especially the American press—can't seem to figure out. We're not boycotting because of tariffs. We're not boycotting because our feelings got hurt. We're boycotting because the largest military machine on the planet decided to threaten us with a takeover after decades of us supporting them in almost every half-baked plan they ever had.

Time to say goodbye.

The media explicitly ignores that because it doesn't fit their agenda. I've only seen 1 article out of many that actually listed that in a list of other reasons for why Canadians are boycotting US goods.

Exactly. There's a serious difference between what happened and simply applying tariffs, which I would compare as an analogy to an argument about who is going to pay the bill at dinner for someone's birthday, which no matter how unreasonable and unjustified is not worth throwing away decades of close friendship or family ties over. This is an argument where one person says you'd better pay the bill at dinner or I'm going to kill you. That's a death threat, that's abusive, and that will not be tolerated, and the only reasonable course of action is to immediately and absolutely cut ties and file a restraining order. That is not a joke, and we will not treat it as a joke.

I talk to American friends about it and they're like: "are you still thinking about that?" "we forgot about that a long while back"

it's like geez ... well it's kinda important to us.

In my case it's the tariffs.

I smell weakness. I want to amplify that weakness as much as I can because America has long abused it's dominant global position.