In a large, brightly lit grocery store in Canada’s capital Ottawa, Scott Chamberlain smoothly navigates his shopping cart through the produce section, looking for ingredients to make chili. He snaps up a bag of red peppers, clearly stamped “Product of Canada.” But the only onions available are from the U.S. He reaches for Canadian-grown leeks instead.
Chamberlain says he began scouring labels shortly after the Group of 7 summit in Canada in early June, when President Trump called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “meek and mild” and “dishonest & weak.”
Across Canada, people are increasingly shocked and angry about the way the country is being treated by the Trump administration. They’ve watched as the U.S. has slapped steep tariffs on Canadian products, listened to President Trump harangue Trudeau and discovered the U.S. now considers their country a national security threat.
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