“With so much interest in buying small Canadian companies, I figured I would share her products as an alternative. Your support would change her life. All products have a maple leaf!”

The response was immediate and enormous, she says, with order requests through her website increasing by almost 4,000 per cent, according to Williams.

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    I wish we had more Canadian products in the grocery stores here in BC. It’s hard avoiding all American products.

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      23 hours ago

      It’s hard but even small efforts help. For me the hierarchy kinda goes like this:

      • Canadian company
      • Non-Canadian, non-US company
      • US company franchised/operating in Canada
      • US company operating in the US

      I aim for number one, try to avoid number four, and the two inner ones are a little more loosey-goosey for me and will depend mostly on the individual product. There are some things we just don’t produce here so… I just do what I can, where I can, and don’t feel guilty if there’s an American product I can’t replace (ever/yet).

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah I think we follow the same logic, it just makes sense. Even though there’s sometimes a hit in the cost or quantity of the product.