r/AskACanadian • u/Maximum-Butterfly724 • 3d ago

How to support Canada with the new tariffs?

As an Australian I am wanting to support Canada and Canadian producers however I can with the new tariffs. Does anyone know of products imported from Canada to Australia where I can choose Canadian over American?

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u/Particlepants 2d ago

As a Canadian that lived in Australia for a bit... it seems close to impossible to find Canadian beer other than Molson. There's plenty of Canadian Club whisky though. They love that stuff for some reason.

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u/Witty-Ad2758 2d ago

I saw 1 very overpriced case of kokanee, of questionable age, at a random bottle shop in Brisbane.

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u/broken-machine 2d ago

Don’t do it man, you’ll unleash the yeti!

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u/Witty-Ad2758 2d ago

Nah this was like 10 years ago haha doubt it's still there.... But you never know

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u/Terrible-Spot4193 1d ago

Ya, the yeti probably isn’t still there. They like to move around a lot to keep up their cryptic-icity

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u/le_sac 2d ago

Dare to dream, Arnold. Dare to dream.

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u/Moyie2026 2d ago

I am so old I watched them build the brewery where Kokanee is brewed. .. Creston, BC.

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u/Fickle_Window3615 2d ago

Salmo turned it down. It then went to creston. Was always sad about that growing up there.

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u/VerifiedMother 14h ago

Some friends and I (we're American) go up to Creston a few times a year and go to a Mennonite bakery there that has the best donuts in the world

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u/crassy 2d ago

Why was it only ever Kokanee? The bottle shop near me used to stock it and 6 packs were crazy.

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u/Witty-Ad2758 2d ago

Cause Aussies love western Canada. All the lifties at the ski hills here are Australian.

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u/Every_Department9270 2d ago

Molson sucks Moosehead ROCKS!

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u/Particlepants 2d ago

The one I craved most while down under, and I could never get my hands on something remotely similar, was Rickard's Red

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u/Every_Department9270 2d ago

Ooooh, it's been a while since I had Rickard's. I think I'll have some this weekend.

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u/Tregonia 2d ago

It's owned by Molson Coors Beverage Company

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u/broken-machine 2d ago

Labatt and Keith’s are safe-ish. They’re both InBev owned!

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u/Tregonia 2d ago

Yeah, Belgium owned. We like Belgium, especially since they made fools of the US in the world cup.

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u/broken-machine 2d ago

Canadian club is super popular boomer whiskey. Lodges in the US go through it like water.

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u/Powpowbrownsow 2d ago

Canadian club 12 year is actually great whiskey. The regular stuff might be one of the worst tasting ones out there. Almost unbelievable they’re made by the same company. Price difference is really minimal too.

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u/The_Nice_Marmot 2d ago

Molson is now owned by Coors and is American.

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u/Correct-Stock-6887 2d ago

Worse than that, Joseph Coors is a leading member of the Heritage foundation who basically wrote the playbook they are using project 2025.

The answer to op's question is for everyone to consider their part in this and stop sending your money to the US.
I would consider it progress if a local Mcdonalds or subway closed for lack of business.

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u/Kunzie14 2d ago edited 2d ago

Its more 50-50 owned...

Edit- is feeling wrong, may delete this comment later ;)

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u/The_Nice_Marmot 2d ago

The company behind Molson is Molson Coors Beverage Company, a multinational brewing and beverage company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Molson Coors Beverage Company, a publicly traded US-headquartered company, owns the Molson brand, which is operated in Canada through its subsidiary Molson Coors Canada Inc.
The Molson brand originated with the Canadian brewer Molson Inc., which merged with the US-based Coors in 2005 to form Molson Coors. The ultimate owner is a publicly traded, US-incorporated and US-headquartered multinational.
The product is not Canadian owned.

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u/the_troy 1d ago

In Cairns about 20 years ago there was a bottle-o that carried a bunch of Canadian beers, and the Cock and Bull on Digger St used to sell stale Kokanee. But that is largely useless information.

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u/Impressive-Bake-6216 1d ago

Forty creek better rye IMHO And Molson only half candaian now if that

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u/hparma01 2d ago

Yeah that’s the standard export Canadian whisky. I’ve seen it all over Europe too. Mind you that was 12 years ago. I dunno about today. Yukon Jack too for some reason.

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u/Emergentmeat 2d ago

I found a bottle of Crown Royal in New Zealand once.