we’re running out of nonviolent options.

We send so much of our natural resources in an almost of completely raw state beyond our borders. Why not enact a law demanding that it be in its final format prior to consumption?

They want oil? Refined gasoline and diesel for vehicles. Or plastic particles for vacuum-forming. Or actual plastic parts for assembly.

They want wood? Lumber processed into its final usable form - beams and studs and plywood only.

They want wheat? Processed and ground into flour and bagged for use.

Rinse and repeat for every raw resource imaginable that comes out of Canada.