Canada has huge reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals, timber. Americans need that.

Canada doesn’t need anything americans sell

Adobe Photoshop 👉 Use GIMP or Affinity.

Adobe Illustrator 👉 Use Inkscape or Affinity.

Word and Excel 👉 LibreOffice is better. No AI shit and it won’t spy on you.

Microsoft Windows 👉 Use Linux. It’s more secure anyway.

General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla 👉 We don’t need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai, Toyotas, Honda, Volkswagen.

Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung

Starbucks Coffee 👉 Just drink local coffee.

McDonalds 👉 Buy from A&W or Harveys

Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Four Seasons 👉 Go to Canadian hotels

Amazon 👉 Fuck Jeff Bezos. Buy from your local stores.

Maxwell House Coffee 👉 Balzac’s Coffee Roasters is Canadian

Tourism 👉 Visit Quebec, Banff National Park, Niagara Falls, Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Yoho National Park. Go north to watch beautiful Arctic landscapes. At least you won’t be shot and killed.

Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won’t crash.

What do americans sell that Canadians actually need? Nothing. They just sell convenience. Their products are often substandard

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 days ago

    Interac is all across Canada, for purchases or sending cash direct to a buddy. How does it suck?

    • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 day ago

      How does it suck?

      1. It’s not truly instant, transactions may take more than 10 minutes to settle, sometimes almost an hour
      2. It’s tied to contact information (email/phone) which I might not want to always disclose
      3. Rigid transaction volume caps
      4. Interac transfer aren’t always free
      5. Interac ATM withdrawals aren’t always free
      6. The whole security question scheme is cumbersome
      7. Banks don’t build on top of it (e.g. no recurring transfers)
      8. For merchants specifically, banks slow adoption of QR-code support (and equivalent means) forces the need of a point of sale machine
      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 day ago

        Thanks for the detailed reply. Some good points for sure.

        1. I’ve gotten around that by using Email aliases, so my interac is not my direct email.

        2. They are free at my Credit Union, its one reason I left TD Bank…they tacked fees onto everything

        3. Do people still use (non bank) ATMS in this era? I havent used one in 15 years maybe. I haven’t handled cash in so long that when somebody gave me a fiver or ten for a Craigslist exchange that I didn’t recognize it. Looked totally foreign to me.

        4. It is. Its why most people have chosen direct deposit that skips the security question.

        • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 day ago

          Yeah there are workarounds to most of these, it’s possible to get by. But it leaves much to be desired, and it’s a legacy system that has evolved very little over the years. It’s kind of like we live with the instant payment system built for the 2000’s and in my point of view, it sucks that we have missed the most of the last 20 years of development in the space.