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Buy Canadian has caused pain in parts of the U.S., but America will be just fine

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There were the star-spangled boos, the shelves emptied of California pinot noir and Kentucky bourbon. There were the cancelled trips and the conferences relocated closer to home. There were counter-tariffs and government promises to find new markets. And there were decisions at the grocery store about which ketchup to buy and which dog food to leave on the shelf.

For more than a year now, Canadians − at least, some of them − have fulminated against their closest international neighbour, eschewing U.S. goods and avoiding American vacation destinations.

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