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Canadian Candy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by troyunrau@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca

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Without the Nutty Club in operation, I can't really find anything made in Canada at all...

For chips we have Old Dutch and La Cochina and a few other good options. But I'm completely lost in the junk food aisle trying to find snacks for D&D.

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[–] LycanGalen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maynard's wine gums are made in Canada, though they're now owned by Mondelez, which is American.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

This is a constant issue. Made in Canada (for US profits) are almost as bad as Made in USA. It's almost worse, depending on how you look at it.

Scenario 1: Made in USA -- we pay a US company to make a product, and they have to pay US wages in US dollars.

Scenario 2: Made in Canada by US owned company -- we pay a US company to make a product, and they have to pay Canadian wages in Canadian dollars, so they have higher profit cause they charge the same as Scenario 1.

Granted, in Scenario 2, there are Canadian jobs involved -- albeit probably low paying jobs.