Canada's DeMinimis Threshold Petition

[SoloSK71]

Originally Posted by Myka

I like import duties, it helps to encourage shopping within Canada.

That would be fine if there were a reasonable difference between US and Canadian pricing, and I would agree. But Calgary, for example, is no more remote than any place in Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota or Montana and has more people than each individual state, if not any two of them.

So to hear that 'remoteness' or 'population' is a reason for having to pay 50% more in some cases (even after exchange) makes me start looking at the US Amazon site, the US ebay site, freight forwarders and the rest of the ways to avoid paying a tax on being Canadian.

Charles