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How the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement is inspiring France’s ‘Le Boycott’
More and more French are boycotting U.S. companies in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-per-cent tariffs on the European Union
The real challenge in Ms. Pipier’s decision to join “Le Boycott” – as the French movement to avoid everything American is colloquially known – is to wean herself off the ubiquitous U.S. internet giants. To show her anger at U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies, the 73-year-old stopped ordering packages from Amazon and cancelled her subscriptions to the Seattle-based giant’s video-streaming and music services. A poll conducted last month by the Paris-based Ifop group found that 62 per cent of respondents among the 1,000 French who were surveyed supported a boycott of American companies in response to Mr. Trump’s policies, with Mr. Musk’s Tesla and X brands, along with Jeep, topping the list of ones they wanted to avoid.
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