Anyway IMHO I think the Canadians should resist the urge to buy across the border mainly because if we flood the border and buy buy buy we are only going to raise the US economy and plummet our dollar again.
I don't think you need to worry about that. These aren't US-manufactured items we're talking about. And nothing short of a miracle will raise the US economy since we've offshored jobs, mass-imported unskilled laborers and employed more people in government than manufacturing. The only thing that kept us going for the last four years was housing (sales, construction, lending) and that has gone tits-up.
we will be on the road to economic independence