Recalling the 2018 trade spat during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, Trudeau told reporters: “The example from last time was Heinz’s ketchup being replaced by French’s ketchup because French’s was still using Canadian tomatoes in its ketchup.”
While it’s true that Kraft Heinz wasn’t making ketchup in Canada at the time, it has since reopened Canadian production, with more than 1,000 workers employed at a Quebec-based facility that uses Ontario-grown tomatoes, the company said in a statement.“
With the exception of the five years from 2015 to 2020, we have made Heinz Ketchup in Canada for more than 100 years.”
Trudeau doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, but this is some leftist-style spinning and factchecking re: Heinz v. French's ketchup being made in Canada.
Heinz shutting down their Leamington, Ontario ketchup plant in 2015 was huge news that I'm sure almost all Canadians (or at least Central Canada ones) remember.
I still think of the controversy everytime I see a plastic French's ketchup bottle, which branded themselves as the Made in Canada replacement when Heinz fled.
I'm sure the fact that Heinz returned to the domestic market in Quebec 5 years ago is news to 99% of other Canadians learning this fact with Trudeau's FAFO.
Trudeau doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, but this is some leftist-style spinning and factchecking re: Heinz v. French's ketchup being made in Canada.
I had the same thought. It's unfair, but Trudeau dosen't deserve being excused because he's a censorious ''we have to combat misinformation!'' fuck.
I also find it weird to have the plant in Québec, but import tomatos from Ontario, when Québec has a greenhouse tomato industry. I thought GHG emissions from transports were bad? Come on Trudeau. /s
Probably it was better PR for the company to start buying tomatos from Ontario again. Also I checked, and part of the production is from Prescott-and-Russell, which might as well be Quebec. Glued to the border, historically French speaking, still slim majority French speaking.
How can you tell when a country is broken? When a business that employs 1,000 Canadian workers and buys Canadian ingredients is forced to respond to misinformation/disinformation by the Prime Minister of Canada.
And the response, especially from conservatives, is super easy (barely an inconvenience)
Admit Trump is right about the border (if you're a conservative this is a no brainer as Justin fucked it up) and agree his demands (if not his threats) are reasonable & we should work to achieve them even if he wasn't threatening tariffs- you can even point out US guns coming into Canada is a problem for us and we want him to fix his side of the border too. And the cost of fixing it is much less than the cost of Trumps tariffs or our retaliatory tariffs.
Acknowledge that Trump is obviously joking about the "51st state" stuff so you're not going to get hot & bothered over it, but there's potential for a stronger economic union between our 2 independent countries. Celebrate our great history together without attacking America, Trump, Elon, etc.
Point out with facts how Trump is foolish about the "trade deficit" and the reason for it is we ship our unprocessed oil to US refineries which creates tens of thousands of American jobs and it's actually beneficial to them. (This is what Alberta's premier has been doing)
Work to build positive relations with not only Trump's team but governors, etc
While I understand the Trudeau Liberals reasons for having the worst response and trying to provoke a trade war (they're fucked and campaigning against Trump, and blaming him for Canada's economic woes, gives them a much better than in the next election than vs Pierre) there's no reason for any other politician (including the lefty ones) or any Canadian media to do the same shit.
Every non-Liberal should be following Danielle Smith's lead.
I'm just going to go on record saying that the rivalry between Heinz ketchup and French's ketchup for the Canadian market, has done wonders for the quality of Canadian ketchup, and is a net benefit for the Canadian consumer.
Trudeau doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, but this is some leftist-style spinning and factchecking re: Heinz v. French's ketchup being made in Canada.
Heinz shutting down their Leamington, Ontario ketchup plant in 2015 was huge news that I'm sure almost all Canadians (or at least Central Canada ones) remember.
I still think of the controversy everytime I see a plastic French's ketchup bottle, which branded themselves as the Made in Canada replacement when Heinz fled.
I'm sure the fact that Heinz returned to the domestic market in Quebec 5 years ago is news to 99% of other Canadians learning this fact with Trudeau's FAFO.
I had the same thought. It's unfair, but Trudeau dosen't deserve being excused because he's a censorious ''we have to combat misinformation!'' fuck.
I also find it weird to have the plant in Québec, but import tomatos from Ontario, when Québec has a greenhouse tomato industry. I thought GHG emissions from transports were bad? Come on Trudeau. /s
Probably it was better PR for the company to start buying tomatos from Ontario again. Also I checked, and part of the production is from Prescott-and-Russell, which might as well be Quebec. Glued to the border, historically French speaking, still slim majority French speaking.
https://x.com/duncandee/status/1883209292599472527
I do like this Daily Mail headline: https://archive.is/fZzOl
Okay that one's funny.
Talk about a condimental misunderstanding.
Carlos!
Also doug Ford, a guy who tried to sell the public green spaces to private developers charges 45$ for a cheap overseas hat finished by his company
There hasn't been a single moment of this trade war that hasn't been embarrassing.
And the response, especially from conservatives, is super easy (barely an inconvenience)
Admit Trump is right about the border (if you're a conservative this is a no brainer as Justin fucked it up) and agree his demands (if not his threats) are reasonable & we should work to achieve them even if he wasn't threatening tariffs- you can even point out US guns coming into Canada is a problem for us and we want him to fix his side of the border too. And the cost of fixing it is much less than the cost of Trumps tariffs or our retaliatory tariffs.
Acknowledge that Trump is obviously joking about the "51st state" stuff so you're not going to get hot & bothered over it, but there's potential for a stronger economic union between our 2 independent countries. Celebrate our great history together without attacking America, Trump, Elon, etc.
Point out with facts how Trump is foolish about the "trade deficit" and the reason for it is we ship our unprocessed oil to US refineries which creates tens of thousands of American jobs and it's actually beneficial to them. (This is what Alberta's premier has been doing)
Work to build positive relations with not only Trump's team but governors, etc
While I understand the Trudeau Liberals reasons for having the worst response and trying to provoke a trade war (they're fucked and campaigning against Trump, and blaming him for Canada's economic woes, gives them a much better than in the next election than vs Pierre) there's no reason for any other politician (including the lefty ones) or any Canadian media to do the same shit.
Every non-Liberal should be following Danielle Smith's lead.
I had completely forgot about the Screen Rant Pitch Meeting Ryan George guy.
At first I thought he stopped, because his last video on the Screen Rant YT channel was almost 3 years ago.
But apparently he's still with Screen Rant, now just on a separate channel.
He posted a Back to the Future II vid just 2 days ago
I'm just going to go on record saying that the rivalry between Heinz ketchup and French's ketchup for the Canadian market, has done wonders for the quality of Canadian ketchup, and is a net benefit for the Canadian consumer.
If you want something with actual flavour Heinz Chili Sauce is the best, it's like ketchup but better.
If only leftists cared about things like hypocrisy, or having standards or principles...
I'm pushing a bill criminalizing attempts to spread misinformation about Castreau's parentage.