Seventy percent of Canadians say they will start looking for ways to avoid buying US-made goods in a threat to ratchet up a trade dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump, an Ipsos Poll showed on Friday. The poll also found a majority of Americans and Canadians are united in support of Trudeau and opposition to Trump in their countries’ stand-off over the renegotiation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), reports Reuters.
Trump pulled out of a joint communique with six other countries last weekend during a Quebec G7 summit meeting. Despite the tensions, 85% of Canadians and 72% of Americans said they support being in NAFTA, and 44% of respondents in both countries said renegotiation of the deal would be a good thing for their country.
While the poll showed support for a boycott of US goods in Canada, pulling it off could be difficult in a country that reveres US popular culture and consumer goods over all others. Canada is the largest market for US goods.
