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Sylvan Charlebois, Troy Media Sylvain Charlebois Changing where Canadians buy and sell food is proving much harder than changing how they feel about the United States. The latest Statistics Canada figures, which came out this week, suggest that neither the boycott of American food nor efforts to diversify Canada’s agri-food trade have meaningfully reduced our dependence on the U. S. Between January and August 2026, Canadian agri-food imports from the U. S. declined by 0.7 per cent, compared with the same period in 2025. That might sound like evidence that Canadians’ determination to avoid American products is having an impact. But Canada’s total agri-food imports declined by 1.2 per cent. Consequently, the American share of our agri-food imports increased from 47.09 per cent to 47.33 per cent, a gain of 0.24 percentage points. The export picture is equally revealing. Between January and August 2025, the U. S. received 61.92 per cent of Canada’s agri-food exports. During the same period in 2026, that share reached 61.98 per cent. Both figures round to 62 per cent.
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