By Tara Deschamps When customers visited Lisa Pozin’s two Vancouver gift shops earlier this year, they had buy Canadian on the brain. “It was the first thing on their mind. They would comment on it and it was like they were seeing the red everywhere,” the owner of Giving Gifts recalled of a surge in patriotic shopping that a tariff war with the U.S. sparked in the winter. “They were looking for the maple leaves … and they were reading packages, even for things like soap, to make sure it was made in Canada.” These days, Pozin said shoppers still appreciate domestic items on her shelves, but their country of origin doesn’t carry the same weight it once did. In fact, many of her customers no longer turn over packages…
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