[Newsbot]

Title: Unions push for a 'Buy Canadian' policy
Category: Business
Posted By: stemmer
Date: 2009-02-10 11:40:27
Canadian

[stokes]

Canadians can not afford, made in Canada products, 90% of our clothing comes from the third world where child labour gets 50 cents a day in a sweat shop....who are these guys kidding?

[hurley_108]

stokes wrote:

Canadians can not afford, made in Canada products, 90% of our clothing comes from the third world where child labour gets 50 cents a day in a sweat shop....who are these guys kidding?

I buy Denver Hayes pants, made in Canada, at about $60 a pair because they last well more than three times longer than the $20 pants at Old Navy made in Myanmar or Bangladesh or some other place.

[Wally_Sconce]

I'm tired of buying tshirts at walmart that are too short after they have been washed 6 times. I have other tshirts that I paid 3 times more money for, but they are 5 years old.

[Bibbi]

hurley_108 wrote:

stokes wrote:

Canadians can not afford, made in Canada products, 90% of our clothing comes from the third world where child labour gets 50 cents a day in a sweat shop....who are these guys kidding?

I buy Denver Hayes pants, made in Canada, at about $60 a pair because they last well more than three times longer than the $20 pants at Old Navy made in Myanmar or Bangladesh or some other place.

Yes, it is pretty bad when jeans become consumable too. Mine only last about 2 years.

[mtbr]

I find Denver Hayes to be poorly made and last about half the time of Levis...wonder where Levis are made these days?

[travior]

Wal-mart has destroyed the economy of all of North America. If Sam Walton knew what his greedy kids did to his company, he would come out of the grave and beat them to death. He always pushed for selling only USA/Canadian made stuff (at least I know he did here in the states) and it was after he died that it transformed into the China Factory Outlet.

[Axeman]

That's the thing we've been lulled to sleep over...QUALITY. I mentioned this on another thread, but my kids play with my Fisher-Price toys and Mattel toys from the early 70s. Made in the USA, still in PERFECT condition 35 years later. I buy a new toy, made in China by some kid making $9.00 a month, covered in lead paint and toxic plastic and god knows what-the-fuck else, at WalMart (omit corporate criticism of WalMart for the time being); that toy will last, MAYBE, 6 months and it'll likely be at least PARTIALLY broken the first day. We don't need BUY CANADIAN campaigns. We just need to wake-the-hell up and be willing to pay for quality. The reason we're reliant on the 3rd World is that we're willing to accept disposable shit. That's the additude we need to address.

[mtbr]

why would you buy a non-brand name item ?

next time you go into wal-mart look for brand names...the same ones are sold next door for 20% more.

[Proculation]

travior wrote:

Wal-mart has destroyed the economy of all of North America. If Sam Walton knew what his greedy kids did to his company, he would come out of the grave and beat them to death. He always pushed for selling only USA/Canadian made stuff (at least I know he did here in the states) and it was after he died that it transformed into the China Factory Outlet.

At least much more people have access to goods they could not afford before. I think it's a good thing.

[Strutz]

Axeman wrote:

That's the thing we've been lulled to sleep over...QUALITY. I mentioned this on another thread, but my kids play with my Fisher-Price toys and Mattel toys from the early 70s. Made in the USA, still in PERFECT condition 35 years later. I buy a new toy, made in China by some kid making $9.00 a month, covered in lead paint and toxic plastic and god knows what-the-fuck else, at WalMart (omit corporate criticism of WalMart for the time being); that toy will last, MAYBE, 6 months and it'll likely be at least PARTIALLY broken the first day. We don't need BUY CANADIAN campaigns. We just need to wake-the-hell up and be willing to pay for quality. The reason we're reliant on the 3rd World is that we're willing to accept disposable shit. That's the additude we need to address.

No kidding. We've become a disposable society and it's horrible. Not only do we have to replace our crap WAY more often than we used to but we have to throw out the broken crap, thus filling our landfills even faster. For example - appliances. When we bought our home the 25 year old washer packed it in a few months later. Found out then that new washers have a 5-10 year life. I thought technology advances would make things better. But no, things are just made cheaper, and last less time, thus creating a steady turnover. Clever, consumers end up paying even more in the end. The now 32+ year stove we have still works like a charm though. Boy they still built things right in the 70's. What happened to quality?

[Axeman]

Strutz wrote:

No kidding. We've become a disposable society and it's horrible. Not only do we have to replace our crap WAY more often than we used to but we have to throw out the broken crap, thus filling our landfills even faster. For example - appliances. When we bought our home the 25 year old washer packed it in a few months later. Found out then that new washers have a 5-10 year life. I thought technology advances would make things better. But no, things are just made cheaper, and last less time, thus creating a steady turnover. Clever, consumers end up paying even more in the end. The now 32+ year stove we have still works like a charm though. Boy they still built things right in the 70's. What happened to quality?

If I could answer that question, I'd win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Seems to me, though, that it's time for us to shit or get off the pot. Either return to making quality product or be willing to suck shit on a global scale.

[ridenrain]

Welcome to the MTV generation.
Our products and their lifetimes are determined by our attention span.
Why else would some retard be replacing his car every 2 to 5 years?

I still have Tonka toys from my child hood (with their cute little stone wheels and those endearing sheared corners of 14Ga. steel edges). Those would outlast a dynasty, but the problem is we are conditioned by the media to always be looking for the new and exciting.. or so we're told.

[Thanos]

Things sure started to go down the tubes when it was quietly decided elsewhere that only rich people could afford quality while the rest of us peons had to suffer through with only sweat-shop made garbage available to us. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but just wait for the real disaster to finally occur when some slick-talking globalists convince our chickenshit politicians to allow Chinese-made vehicles onto the roads. It'll be such carnage it'll make the end of the world in "Terminator 3" look like the work of the Care Bears.

[DrCaleb]

mtbr wrote:

I find Denver Hayes to be poorly made and last about half the time of Levis...wonder where Levis are made these days?

They used to be made in Edmonton. Now they are made in Mexico, and it shows.