‘Canada is not for sale’: Trump’s threats of annexation and tariffs stoke Canadian patriotism
The possibility of a trade war is fracturing bilateral relations and eroding trust between the North American neighbors. A new ‘economic nationalism’ is taking hold among consumers
Half a dozen employees were working in a textile factory outside Ottawa on Friday to satisfy the sudden surge of nationalist sentiment in Canada. They are in charge of supplying the latest and unexpected North American cultural war: the battle of the caps. Here, and in a dozen other factories spread across Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto, they are embroidering the message “Canada is not for sale,” the flag with the maple leaf and 1867, the year of the country’s founding, on white, blue and red fabrics and the same font as the most ubiquitous political symbol of our time: those MAGA caps that, south of the border, call for the United States to be made great again.
