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Title: Man living only on Canadian products for 2011
Category: lifestyle
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2011-01-23 19:56:53
Canadian

[martin14]

website in my favs, this could be interesting.

Good luck to him !




hmmm, what does this look like ?

[andyt]

Doubt he can do it. But I really doubt he could do it if he had to start off clean - ie not own anything non-Canadian when he starts the year. And what does Canadian mean? They mention movies. Movies that are deemed Canadian mostly have lots of non-Canadian elements. Same with manufactured products - made in Canada, but how many of the components are imported? Food "product of Canada" is often not 100% either. So this is mostly a bullshit enterprise.

[ShepherdsDog]

he'll have to give up his computer and access to the net(which is also not a Canadian product). Any and all electronics will be a no no. It was possible to get away with this in my mom's youth(she's 65), but not nowadays, unless you raise your own food and forgo most modern conveniences.

[martin14]

andyt andyt:

Doubt he can do it. But I really doubt he could do it if he had to start off clean - ie not own anything non-Canadian when he starts the year. And what does Canadian mean? They mention movies. Movies that are deemed Canadian mostly have lots of non-Canadian elements. Same with manufactured products - made in Canada, but how many of the components are imported? Food "product of Canada" is often not 100% either. So this is mostly a bullshit enterprise.

Try sifting through the website first, before pronouncing your uninformed doom.

[DanSC]

martin14 martin14:

hmmm, what does this look like ?

Definitely would not have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.

Good luck to him; I really hope he can accomplish his goal. On a side note, I can't even fathom how hard it would be to live purely on American products for a year.

[angler57]

Good for this gentleman. He has a tough row to hoe.
Yry myself to buy only products of Canada or USA.
It ain't easy.

[PostFactum]

Good for him .But nowadays the world is close more than ever, using products of only one country is very difficult. In
Ukraine we have a little bit another competition, students try to survive living on a minimum approved by the government per month for one person (98$).

[sandorski]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

he'll have to give up his computer and access to the net(which is also not a Canadian product). Any and all electronics will be a no no. It was possible to get away with this in my mom's youth(she's 65), but not nowadays, unless you raise your own food and forgo most modern conveniences.

Not necessarily the Internet, but his Computer or any device that uses it, yes. Unless he gets around it by using a Library Computer or something like that.

[sandorski]

It could be done, but not without the sacrifice of many things we take for granted.

[Brenda]

$1:

Oh, and if anyone knows where to find some Canadian-made shaving cream, Barefoot would love to know.

Try an electrical razor... Oh wait

Grow a beard!

[PostFactum]

Brenda Brenda:

$1:

Oh, and if anyone knows where to find some Canadian-made shaving cream, Barefoot would love to know.

Try an electrical razor... Oh wait

Grow a beard!

In childhood(when I was 7-10 years old), watching Holywood films, I was always thinking that typical Canadian man is:tall person with 15cm. beard, hair that is just about covering the ears, in a good dirty rubber boots, yellow teeth smile, in a jacket from bear's or deer's skin, warm cap and axe on his shoulder. That on the whole territory of Canada there are those who speak French and English. That Montreal is somewhere in Italy or France. Now, remembering that stuff I'm laughing

[Brenda]

The first thing my mom said when I told her we were going to move to Canada was: OMG, girl, WAY TOO COLD!!

[Mowich]

The problem with living on only Canadian food is that very little in our country is acutally all Canadian. Pigs and cows for example travel back and forth across the border before finally landing on the supermarket shelves. I give him credit for trying and know he will learn a lot about what is truly 'Canadian'.

[Brenda]

That is solved by buying local and organic.