Sure but you're going back at finding alternatives which I never said would be impossible.

What I'm saying is that this alternative will either be more expensive or lower quality. None of these two options makes an individual richer.

It's also very simplistic to reduce canadian import down to milk and maple syrup. If it was just those 2 ai don't think Trump would have even bothered.

In fact, the reason why those tariffs will hurt us is because our economy as been built to export *a lot* to the US. And I'm not thinking at finished product like maple syrup as much as machinery parts.

But yeah sure. You can just buy one of those part made in the US instead. But you might have to pay double. You paid an American sure. But you're still poorer than if you had paid a Canadian in a free market + the American you paid would have simply be incentivized to work on something and that isn't bad.