{"id":15753,"date":"2025-03-04T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/?p=15753"},"modified":"2025-03-04T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:00:08","slug":"what-is-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/blogs\/2025\/03\/what-is-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"What *IS* Canadian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">With all the talk about tariffs, people want to buy more Canadian products.<br \/>\nBUT, they may be wondering what &#8220;counts&#8221; as a Canadian product because<br \/>\nsome are listed as &#8220;Made in Canada&#8221; and others are &#8220;Product of Canada&#8221;,<br \/>\nand there is a slight difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/competition-bureau.canada.ca\/en\/how-we-foster-competition\/education-and-outreach\/publications\/product-canada-and-made-canada-claims\">From the Competition Burwau&#8217;s Website<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Product of Canada&#8221; claims will be subject to a higher threshold of Canadian content (98%),<br \/>\nwhile &#8220;Made in Canada&#8221; claims will remain subject to a 51% threshold of Canadian content<br \/>\nbut should be accompanied by a qualifying statement indicating that the product contains imported content.<br \/>\nIn both cases, the last substantial transformation of the product must have occurred in Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If you have any doubt, there are apps like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buybeaver.ca\/\">Buy Beaver,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ca\/app\/o-scanada\/id6741120187\">O SCANada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=ca.proudlybuyingcanadian.canshop\">Shop Canadian<\/a>,<br \/>\nor sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/madeincanadadirectory.ca\/made-in-canada-directory-app\/\">MadeInCanadaDirectory.ca<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/madeinca.ca\/\">madeinca.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8230;or if all else fails, you could take the advice of This Hour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oYUI4hu950w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With all the talk about tariffs, people want to buy more Canadian products. BUT, they may be wondering what &#8220;counts&#8221; as a Canadian product because some are listed as &#8220;Made in Canada&#8221; and others are &#8220;Product of Canada&#8221;, and there is a slight difference. From the Competition Burwau&#8217;s Website: &#8220;Product of Canada&#8221; claims will be","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":15754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[6413,70,6414,6415],"class_list":["post-15753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","category-blogs","tag-buy-canadian","tag-canadian","tag-products","tag-qualifications"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 12:20:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock945.ca\/blogs\/2025\/03\/what-is-canadian\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15755,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions\/15755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cibufm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}