Canadians are just as enthusiastic about avoiding American products and buying Canadian as they were nineteen months ago when U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war against Canada, new polling shows.
The share of Canadians who intend to avoid American products is “unchanged,” a report from Abacus Data said on Thursday.
In February 2025, Trump first announced tariffs against Canada. Abacus conducted a poll of Canadians asking them if they intend to boycott American products, with 78 per cent saying they would.
Nineteen months later, the figure is virtually unchanged at 77 per cent.
Many are putting their intentions into action. In February, more than half (53 per cent) said they had bought more Canadian goods, while on Thursday that figure was 61 per cent.
The largest swing came among Canadians who said they would not make any travel plans to the U.S., with the number rising from 32 per cent in February 2025 to 52 per cent in 2026.
Canadians are also making smaller behaviour changes, such as avoiding American gas stations (rising from 33 per cent to 39 per cent), avoiding American retailers such as Walmart (20 per cent to 26 per cent), reducing purchases on Amazon (21 per cent to 26 per cent) and cancelling American streaming services (14 per cent to 20 per cent).
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The demographic where the Buy Canadian movement was softening was older Canadians, with 54 per cent saying they planned to avoid American products in February 2025 and 48 per cent in September 2026.
Over the same period, Canadians under 30 went from 31 per cent to 32 per cent during the same period.
But challenges remain, with 61 per cent of Canadians saying buying Canadian-made goods would cost more money, up from 60 per cent in February 2025.
In February 2025, the week the first U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods took effect, Abacus Data surveyed 3,000 Canadian adults (February 5 to 11, 2025) about how the tariffs would change what they buy. In September 2026 Abacus asked the same questions again of 1,479 Canadian adults from September 4 to 9, 2026.
I think we may have found our demographic to raise taxes on.
If you have, what do the socialists call it, excess profits sufficient to overpay for things simply over pride, you could probably due with paying 10% more tax than all other Canadians that balance quality and affordability rather than being cheerleaders for senseless tariffs and trade wars.
The only thing American I buy are fresh fruit and vegetables IF the price is very low. That’s it. Period.
No, it was his stupid policies that your current government agreed were stupid as they started to dismantle stupid Trudeau’s legacy.
“Anonymous
October 4, 2026 at 7:22 am
anonymous is still sad about JT’s socks.
What a stupid ass.”
Because polls are quantitative and not the obviously qualitative self-reporting jibberish that it actually is.
We live in a world where people are self-absorbed and oblivious to their contradiction, and identifying as something is the same as being that thing, which is wholly irrational thinking…
So what good is a poll where respondents identify with being the shopper that buys Canadian above all else while suing an American company for product that they in fact purchased.
nothng canadian.. all importe hybrid.. even people also imported.. candian is just useless nowdays
Another propaganda story from Global
anonymous is still sad about JT’s socks.
What a stupid ass.
Canadians are buying food and other necessities based on price because buying Canadian products is too expensive. Carney will not use Canadian steel and has approved the cheaper Chineses steel for projects he said would use Canadian. Yet he still tells us to buy Canadian. What a hypocrite.
Price is the driving factor for what most Canadians buy. Carney is buying steel from China while Canadians are losing their jobs because plants are closing all because Carney won’t deal with Trump about the tariffs
I always shop at Walmart and Costco because times are tough and I have to save money, but while I am there I always harass and berate the staff for working for an American company.
@Lloyd. South African fruit is not better, cheaper or stay as fresh as the citrus from the USA. I will do without before I buy produce from South Africa again
All of the fast track projects have been approved to use Chinese steel. Projects like the LNG and Pipeline will not be using Canadian steel and while Canadian steel plants are closing and laying off workers Carney has approved the use of Chinese steel. All because he won’t deal with the tariffs. Wake up people Carney is laughing at us all.
Joke lol nobody cares as long as it’s cheap
Canadians are such virtue-signalling faux patriots that make a big show about buying a few Canadian products, which equate to nothing. What a soulless country.
Another media psyop on behalf of the Liberal party.
Fake patriotism, all performative theatre. Where was all this just a handful of years ago when Trudeau lowered our flag for months and when our anthem was being changed at will by every other singer
I work in a major grocery chain I in Vancouver, and that’s not what I’m seeing. People don’t really care nor do they check.
Lloyd its also two weeks old by the time you buy it
Citrus from South Africa is superior to USA produced citrus. At times it can be cheaper too.
I also am a firm believer in buying Canadian products .
Whenever I see Canadian oranges I buy them! Even my phone, I don’t buy those iPhones designed in the USA and built in China. I only buy Canadian cell phones like BlackBerry (however they are used and don’t do too much)
Yup Carney is all Buy Canadian as he imports Chink steel to build the Kitimat LNG expansion. A contract in the Canadian interest built with foreign steel. Yup he all Canada all right.
When you have a president that sympathizes with the Cornell rapists. “President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for the male students accused in the Cornell University sexual assault case, stating that he feels badly for them because they “won’t get a fair shake”. It’s pretty easy to know what’s morally right. It’s on snapchat, you Muppet.
noting cnadinan except oil..
canada is servert of USA and Immigrants.. only 20% real canadians left in canada.
Yet Amazon purchases are at an all time high in Canada. Why? Cause most of the elbozos are too fat and lazy to actually go a Canadian store and buy something.
Dear elbozos up cultists, I buy what I want from where I want. I still buy US items and still shop in the US. Don’t care. I work. I pay abhorrent amount
In Canadian taxes my choice.
It’s actually buy Chinese.
Incontinentia Buckets is right. Trudeau made us lower the flags for how many months? And in Ottawa we stripped protestors of their right to protest and froze their bank accounts.
We should always buy Canadian – no matter who the President is.
The fact that the Elbosos only started flying their flags after Trump starting throwing insults just goes to show the emptiness of their nationalism. It is as vacant as their intelligence.
Only 5 years ago, most of them were calling the Canadian flag racist for goodness sake!
Tell the laid off Stelco workers how they feel about Elbows Up.
An american owned plant in sudbury, ontario, had to lay off half of its workforce because people were not buying their product. That is canadians losing their jobs. I hope the elbozos realize that.
Buy Canadian. And get ripped off by those grifting the Elbows Up crowd….
Like most logical people… I shop with my wallet not my passport
Carney spends about $250k on in flight catering for each trip he goes on. A shameful waste of taxpayers money.
Luckily I live 10 minutes from the USA border. I go into Washington state to buy all my groceries and diary. Even with the exchange rate I still save 20-25% than buying in BC grocery stores
Ben, please. A tiny portion of Southern Vancouver Island can grow a very small number of species of citrus where a very small micro climate exists. And they require certain measures in winter. Are you hoping for global warming Ben?
I dont know any members of this so called movement
I love Kentucky Bourbon and never stopped buying it. So glad Alberta didn’t go Elbows Up like Lard Ford in Ontario.
I go off on quality and price. Some people do not have the available funds to pay 50-100% more for “Canadian” products.
@Anonymous 1236 pm. Hardy citrus is grown in BC. Although it will be difficult to increase production which is small because it’s not terribly economically viable at this time. My hope is that funding of infrastructure in food production will help overcome the economics.
The Costco parking lot was full yesterday. People seems to be fine buying from an American company.
I thought this was another Ipsos poll, but I see it’s Abacus this time. They polled 3000 people last year and 1479 this year. Polling research companies have a funny way of polling a few thousand people and then removing about half from the final control group. Canada’s population is also 41.1 M.
I still don’t care what privileged, out of touch liberals think.
The poll is not an election, it’s propaganda.
Global, jam your sneaky censorship where the binary bits don’t shine
Yeah, right! Whatever.
Buying Canadian means going to Costco or Walmart. We are so happy to spend our money there we don’t even question yearly membership fees just to be able/allowed to buy American products in American Costco. Yeah, buy “Canadian” in American Stores.
I buy what I like for the price I like.
I refuse to hate America like to elbows up crowd and I will continue to travel there and buy products from the USA
Lots of Canadians traveling down south. and when in the store buy what is the best price.
Ben “reducing import dependencies such as citrus.”
When is the last time you saw citrus groves growing in Canada at a commercial level, ie not just one tree in a green house somewhere? Trees also take years to grow and to produce fruit.
Whatever is cheaper is what I will buy. I don’t care where its from.
Great to see all the comments from those lacking education. Why be smart when you can complain? Got teeth? Probably not. Got a big opinion…Yeeeehaw!!!
We’re definitely seeing great support from Canadians buying from Canadian-owned businesses and Canadian-made products at http://www.shoppa.ca
Go Canada!
I never look at labels. I buy what I want for the best price, like I always did. Not like the elbows up hypocrites. Why in the hell were you people not buying Canadian products all your lives? Maybe if you were companies wouldn’t have moved out of Canada.
It’s hard to avoid buying American products in the grocery stores, especially fresh produce…
“Made in Canada” by foreign workers… hire Canadians should be the messaging… not buy Canadian. What’s the point of buying Canadian if no Canadians produced the product or provided the service?
The National Food Security Strategy, 3.2 billion over 10 years, has various goals including reducing import dependencies such as citrus.
Ben, what exactly is the goverment trying to increase and how? Be specific.
Umm ya ok …50 to 60% of our produce and agri products come from states.
We import about about 25% of our food. The government is trying to increase this amount, especially in areas that we are deficient, like citrus.
Good luck with that. We import much of our food due to our climate. Back in February 2025, months before tariffs began, we had shoppers looking for “Canadian orange juice” and they were shocked to find labels on shelves in Loblaws with “Prepared In Canada”.