Honest question - are Canadians generally fine with normal US citizens with no untoward agenda still coming to visit and shop in Canada? I love partaking in the cuisine, a museum, and a library in a relatively nearby border town. Especially the more ethnically-diverse cuisine, because shitty generic Americana fare gets tiresome. Canadian Tire is fun, too, although I do secretly wonder why it’s not Canadian Tyre. Curious to know if US plates on a car in Canada generate a negative response nowadays.
Also, I’m sorry about the reality for which I felt the need to ask this question.
I own a business in Canada which gets a ton of tourists. I’m fine with everyone coming in.
That said, if they’re wearing a MAGA red hat or a Trump shirt, I’m not quite sure what I’d do. I’d probably tell them they can’t come in wearing that. I think it would be hilarious to make these scrubs leave their hats in the car.
We dislike your president and the shit show he’s caused. If you’re willing to spend your hard earned money here though we’ll welcome you with open arms.
We were recently in Vancouver, and people were happy to have us! You shouldn’t worry. We did some extra shopping in solidarity and they appreciated our support.
Because in the same way we are not American, we are not British.
Curious to know if US plates on a car in Canada generate a negative response nowadays.
Depends on if you’re talking an American negative response or a Canadian negative response. I don’t imagine you’d be getting flipped off or have stuff thrown at you but you may not have people stop to let you back out of a parking spot or let you out of a driveway in busy traffic.
Alberta is a broken province. The people here are single issue voters, and that single issue is always “it better not be a damn liberal”.
For a province that’s voted conservative and had a conservative premier since 1971 (aside from 1 term in 2015), we sure like to blame all our problems on the other parties.
Our last 2 premiers ran on platforms of reducing healthcare and education spending. And now my kid has a harder time in school because they have way less resources, teachers are underpaid, and half the healthcare workers (nurses and doctors) fucked off to B.C. and Sask.
The conservative solution to the problem they created (on purpose of course) is to privatize healthcare and schooling. And the people are eating it up claiming they wanna pay less taxes. We already pay less taxes here than the rest of the fuckin country.
But for some reasons all my neighbors think about is “trans people are evil” and “Ontario is stealing our money!” So, we continue to be a blue province.
However, Trump is losing favor here pretty quick with 25% tarrifs on our oil and farm goods. when those 2 things are 27% of our GDP and employ about 8% of the province, it hurts pretty bad.
Come spend your money, just don’t act all full of yourself like some Americans do.
Also, “tyre” is British spelling. We kind of have our own spelling where we generally use British spelling, but not for everything. For example, we don’t spell fetus as “foetus” or estrogen as “oestrogen” either. There’s probably some fancy official name for it.
Honest question - are Canadians generally fine with normal US citizens with no untoward agenda still coming to visit and shop in Canada? I love partaking in the cuisine, a museum, and a library in a relatively nearby border town. Especially the more ethnically-diverse cuisine, because shitty generic Americana fare gets tiresome. Canadian Tire is fun, too, although I do secretly wonder why it’s not Canadian Tyre. Curious to know if US plates on a car in Canada generate a negative response nowadays.
Also, I’m sorry about the reality for which I felt the need to ask this question.
I own a business in Canada which gets a ton of tourists. I’m fine with everyone coming in.
That said, if they’re wearing a MAGA red hat or a Trump shirt, I’m not quite sure what I’d do. I’d probably tell them they can’t come in wearing that. I think it would be hilarious to make these scrubs leave their hats in the car.
You should absolutely turn them away. They are your enemy. They chose to vote to hurt you and your business.
Come and spend your money in our economy, sure!
I doubt you’ll have any trouble unless you have MAGA bullshit on display or are driving a Tesla.
We dislike your president and the shit show he’s caused. If you’re willing to spend your hard earned money here though we’ll welcome you with open arms.
We were recently in Vancouver, and people were happy to have us! You shouldn’t worry. We did some extra shopping in solidarity and they appreciated our support.
Because in the same way we are not American, we are not British.
Depends on if you’re talking an American negative response or a Canadian negative response. I don’t imagine you’d be getting flipped off or have stuff thrown at you but you may not have people stop to let you back out of a parking spot or let you out of a driveway in busy traffic.
Most of the people I know are not okay with Americans right now. I’m in Alberta tho.
That is surprising. I would anticipated the opposite in Alberta.
Alberta is a broken province. The people here are single issue voters, and that single issue is always “it better not be a damn liberal”.
For a province that’s voted conservative and had a conservative premier since 1971 (aside from 1 term in 2015), we sure like to blame all our problems on the other parties.
Our last 2 premiers ran on platforms of reducing healthcare and education spending. And now my kid has a harder time in school because they have way less resources, teachers are underpaid, and half the healthcare workers (nurses and doctors) fucked off to B.C. and Sask.
The conservative solution to the problem they created (on purpose of course) is to privatize healthcare and schooling. And the people are eating it up claiming they wanna pay less taxes. We already pay less taxes here than the rest of the fuckin country.
But for some reasons all my neighbors think about is “trans people are evil” and “Ontario is stealing our money!” So, we continue to be a blue province.
However, Trump is losing favor here pretty quick with 25% tarrifs on our oil and farm goods. when those 2 things are 27% of our GDP and employ about 8% of the province, it hurts pretty bad.
“Well, they’re very… sensitive.”
-BC
Same here in America. It’s frustrating to know that half the people you know or are related to want the world to burn under an orange king.
Come spend your money, just don’t act all full of yourself like some Americans do.
Also, “tyre” is British spelling. We kind of have our own spelling where we generally use British spelling, but not for everything. For example, we don’t spell fetus as “foetus” or estrogen as “oestrogen” either. There’s probably some fancy official name for it.
I like to think of it as Canadish.