Kraft Heinz Canada expressed its displeasure with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments regarding its ketchup during a discussion about potential U.S. tariffs. Trudeau suggested that Canadians could switch to French's ketchup as an alternative to Heinz if tariffs were imposed on Canadian goods. Kraft Heinz refuted this claim, emphasizing its long-standing history of producing Canadian-made ketchup using Ontario-grown tomatoes.
January 24, 2025 at 11:21AM ESTKraft Heinz Canada could not bottle up its disappointment with what it says were “misleading” comments from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about its ketchup amid looming tariff threats.
“That’s why we will look, as we have in the past, at things that have replacements for Canadian consumers that wouldn’t be tariffed,” Trudeau told reporters on Wednesday. The ketchup production facility had moved to the U.S. in 2015, out of Leamington, Ont., but returned to Canada“We were resolute in our decision to bring the production of Heinz Ketchup back to Canada in 2020 and are proud that Heinz Ketchup is made in Canada, by Canadians, using Canadian tomatoes,” the company said.
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