Don’t travel to the U.S. unless absolutely necessary. Use Canadian transportation companies (Porter Airlines, Air Canada, WestJet, etc.) if you have to travel to U.S. destinations. Vacation in Canada instead or travel to non-U.S. countries and territories.
Buy oil and gas from Canadian companies (like Co-op and UFA etc). Boycott “fast food” outlets like Circle K, McDonald's, etc.). Boycott Walmart and Costco.
Send letters (keep copies) to your local MLAs and to Alberta MPs stating support for Canada and for inter-provincial trade within Canada. Canada should expand trade (including selling oil, gas, coal, lumber, beef, grain, dairy, seafood, etc.) to non-U.S. countries (European nations, NATO countries, African, Asian and Latin America countries).
Canada should stop buying U.S.-made military weapons as well. Buy from European allies instead or we build our own. If Ukraine can build its own drones and missiles, we can too.
Bottom line: We’re in an “economic war” with a narcissistic sociopath (Trumpus Maximus), not against American citizens. He has violated NAFTA (which he signed) and he has declared economic war against other countries without the approval of the U.S. Congress. He truly believe that he and his supporters are above the rule of law. We don’t bow down (kowtow) to bullies and to dictators.
And, since we are at war, we should practise rationing, like buying necessities (not wants). If our ancestors could do it in the First World War, during the Great Depression, in the Second World War, and during the Great Recession, we can too.
Canadian are "tough." We defeated U.S. forces (twice) during America’s War for Independence, five times during the War of 1812, and we reject offers to buy territories that are now Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the late 1800s. “Canada is not for sale”.
George Thatcher,
Olds
