IS THIS A VENDETTA?

Canada is generally quite open to trading with fellow British Empire alumni. And yet, there are a handful of weirdly petty categories in which we’ve decided to take the boots to the Aussies and Kiwis. This includes soap, jellies, licorice and the letters put on the sides of houses to indicate the address. Adam Taylor suspects these are all a legacy of NAFTA negotiations in the 1980s. We may have dropped our tariffs with the U.S. and Mexico, while further sweetening the deal by raising them against our Commonwealth cousins.