They Never Counted How Much Canada Spent Here And Now They're Losing Everything

So something interesting is happening that I don't think enough people are paying attention to. A lot of American businesses quietly built themselves on Canadian customers and never once stopped to calculate how much they actually needed that money. Until now. We're looking at two stories today. One in Bellingham, Washington — a craft store called Northwest Yarns and Mercantile that's been a staple of the local community for years. The owners say they lost about 20 percent of their business almost overnight. And that's not just from Canadians stopping their cross-border shopping trips because of the trade war and all the anti-Canadian rhetoric that came with it — the tariffs also pushed their product costs through the roof. One item had four separate price increases in six months. They've now launched a GoFundMe just to keep the lights on. The second story comes from a ceramics business owner in North Carolina — a completely different part of the country, a completely different product, and the exact same problem. All of their Canadian customers are gone since Trump started the trade war. Not most of them. All of them. This is what the Canada-US trade war actually looks like at street level. It's not just a number on a trade deficit chart. It's the yarn store, the ceramics shop, the small business in a border town or a southern state that depended on Canadian spending without ever realizing how much weight that money was carrying. The Canadian boycott is working. And the damage to American businesses is only starting to show up in the headlines. There's a lot more of this coming. What are you seeing in your area? Are local businesses near you starting to feel the impact of fewer Canadian customers or Canadian tourism drying up? Drop it in the comments — genuinely want to hear what's happening on the ground. e-7146 (Foreign affairs) ourcommons.ca Petition https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/e... e-7319 (Foreign affairs) https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/e... e-7340 (Foreign affairs) https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/e... Bellingham craft store nears closure as Canadian tourism drops, tariffs squeeze sales    • Bellingham craft store nears closure as Ca...   The Trade War Is Still Pummelling U.S. Businesses https://macleans.ca/politics/the-trad... Proton Email Referral Link https://pr.tn/ref/4Z7GCXPE Guard The Leaf Social Links: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/guardtheleaf... YouTube:    / @guardtheleaf   Reddit:   / guardtheleaf   Hey.Cafe: https://hey.cafe/r/guardtheleaf Discord:   / discord   00:00 Intro 00:54 Bellingham WA Business On Life Support 05:40 North Carolina Business On Life Support 12:07 GTL Rant 14:31 GTL Community Photo