Trump Tariffed Canada's Food. He Never Noticed the World's Biggest French Fry Company Is Canadian.

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One in every four french fries eaten on Earth is made by McCain Foods — the world's largest frozen potato company, founded in 1957 by four brothers in Florenceville, New Brunswick, and still Canadian today. Canola, the number two cooking oil in the United States, was invented by Canadian scientists and literally named "Canadian oil, low acid"; the US imported 2.5 million tonnes of it in 2025. Saskatchewan is the world's leading exporter of durum wheat, lentils, peas, oats and mustard seed. Quebec produces roughly 70% of the world's maple syrup. Canada is the world's largest lobster exporter. And according to the USDA, Canada supplied 18.5% of all American agricultural imports in 2025. In this video: the town that feeds a planet, the oil named after a country, the prairie pantry behind the American hot dog and pasta bowl, the sweetest cartel on Earth, the honest ledger of a food system so integrated that tariffs land on both sides of the kitchen — and why, in two years of tariffing Cana

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