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To show support for Canada amid a trade war with the U.S., John Mackay says he tries to only buy Canadian products during grocery runs.
That’s why the 81-year-old from Tillsonburg, Ont., said he’s complained to Metro multiple times after seeing orange juice with pulp by Irrésistible — a Metro-owned private-label brand — with a red maple leaf next to the price tag on the shelf.
“Since when are we growing oranges in Canada?” said Mackay, whose home is roughly 115 kilometres west of Hamilton. “I was pissed off.”
Growing oranges in a greenhouse in Canada is not impossible . . . but you’re not going to do it on the scale or at the price you’d need to make store-brand orange juice from them. Selling the actual oranges as premium produce in select Canadian markets would be possible, although not many people would be able to afford them.
The problem is that the standards for “Made in [country]” labels are pretty lax. We need different ones for “Packaged in Canada”, “Processed in Canada (but with some foreign ingredients)”, “Made in Canada by a foreign-owned company”, and “Actually 100% Made in Canada from domestic ingredients by a Canadian company”.
Or maybe what we really need is a, “The US had a hand in producing this” label. I don’t think most of us have much problem with buying something from, say, Belgium or Ecuador.
I would really like this. That is the list we should be curating.
We also need labels those that say" “imported by asdf Canada inc” to instead say where the hell they were imported from.