Toronto fair backs local businesses ahead of Trump tariffs

STORY: :: March 26, 2025

:: Toronto, Canada

:: This Toronto just is urging Canadians to bargain section amid Trump tariffs

:: The 'One of a Kind Show' spotlights implicit 400 artisans, aiming to boost the 'Buy Canadian' movement

"We're a caller brand, a comparatively caller brand, and we person a fewer shows successful the U.S., truthful it's truly concerning to inquire customers to wage other taxes connected our goods that are already premium due to the fact that they're wool small pieces made successful Toronto."

"It is decidedly much important. I deliberation it's scary the mode the governmental concern is close now. I deliberation there's a batch of chartless and radical are tense astir their jobs and their income. And I deliberation it's important that we proceed those that tin enactment local."

"I person a batch of customers successful the U.S. and my customers successful the U.S. they person reached retired to me. They person emailed, they person texted, they person sent messages. And they said, they said, 'please don't beryllium huffy astatine us. We inactive emotion you. We inactive emotion your brand. We inactive emotion your leathers. We inactive basal for you. We're inactive going to enactment you'. So I person each my U.S. customers are very, precise coagulated for inactive supporting Canadian businesses. Big time."

The One of a Kind Show supports section artisans, featuring implicit 400 artists from crossed the country. This year's variation comes amid a propulsion for buying Canadian-made products.

For immoderate section businesses astatine the just who bash concern successful the U.S., the menace of tariffs has loomed implicit their trade.

The One of a Kind Show has been a fixture successful Toronto for astir 50 years, but this year, amid economical uncertainty, the lawsuit is becoming a rallying constituent for the increasing "Buy Canadian" movement.