Predictably, Doug Ford has decided that the best way to deal with Trump’s decision to make Canadian products more expensive than they need to be for Americans is to deny Ontarians access to American liquor products completely. It’s none of the government’s business where you buy your liquor, but hey, in an “emergency” no measure is off the table.
American alcohol will disappear from liquor store shelves in Ontario and B.C. as the provinces add their own ammunition to a federal plan aimed at getting the U.S. to back down from tariffs.
Michelle Wasylyshen, president and CEO of Ontario Craft Wineries, said she saw Ford’s move as a particularly helpful way to ensure Canada’s retaliatory measures pack a punch.
The legally sanctioned obliteration of competitors might be viewed as helpful to a particular business, but it’s not so helpful to consumers who face vastly fewer choices.
You don’t know jack..
Welcome to FILTHY Fordistan
This Big Fat Ugly Communist (I remember his COVID response)
Has to make us suffer. It’s NONE OF HIS BUSINESS what Alcohol I buy.
I hate this Country and all FILTHY LIBERALS.
GOD DAMN DUG FORD. A Pathetic Condescending Asshole.
Good thing I quit drinking 20 years ago. Otherwise, this would annoy me. As it is, I don’t gaf.
I wonder if #BlubberDougie really understands who his voters are. Even during Covid the LCBO didn’t close. Proclaimed an essential service and kept open. Like Walmart.
Jack Daniels is disgusting swill anyway. I will miss Bulleit, though.
But you know what? I’m giving a pass to Grimsby’s Forty Creek. F*ck Ontario.
Enforce our own border? That’s crazy talk! China has paid for our porous border, so the fentanyl must flow.
We really need to be conquered.
From the 49th to the Arctic sea, Canada must cease to be!
I’ll do my bit. I have to start reading labels for “Made in USA”
90% of Canadians live within 100 Miles of the US border, I have read.
Shame if they came to the US and drove a few bottles back.
Reminds me of Prohibition when my father, born in 1904, chauffeured Catholic Nuns to Canada from Northern NY state. On the way back he brought a trunk full of beverages. The Nuns suspected nothing and the border crossing was easy in those days as no one would dream of harassing nuns. Worked every time.
My wife’s grandfather did the same here in Montana bringing back booze with the Canadian hay he had purchased for his cattle ranch.
Funny how the world works.
I didn’t know that nuns like hay.
My paternal great grandfather ran booze both ways. South when prohibition was in the US and north when Canada went dry. His biggest rival was the Alberta Provincial Police. They would confiscate and resell.
Black Liquor Markets matter.
You win the internet today.
Didn’t the wonderful Kennedy’s make their fortune smuggling booze way back when?
Yup. Then they went into politics where the real money was.
Canadians need to be patriotic and quit doing all recreational drugs, especially the illegal ones before the Libs/NDP normalize them too. Stop the demand and the supply will follow. C’mon addicts, help toughen the border. Or is this a social NIMBY issue? As an aside, does Canada import more tobacco products, vaping matrial and alcohol than it exports?
“When goods cannot cross borders, armies soon will”
-some smart guy.
Okay. I do prefer a good rye over that rot-gut corn liquor. But with all the Turd taxes already levied it’s all too expensive to buy here.
I’m a big fan of Gibson’s.
Pappy Van Winkle would change your mind in a hurry, but it is pricey.
No need for the trendy burbon madness and jacked up prices.
$25 bottle of Buffalo trace was my go to long before it was cool.
Used to be able to get Blanton’s for $45. Nobody bought the stuff 15 years ago. It sat on the shelf getting bleached out.
I don’t touch the stuff now that they’re run by corporate marketing whores.
I the fight between rye and bourbon, i reach for Jameson or Tulamore Dew as staples and various scotch single malts for special occasions. Feel like a glass of The Balvenie Double Wood 12 yrs old while watching Canada fall apart again.
Alberta Rye is outstanding and cheap.
Then I wonder if you’ve ever had a really good bourbon. So far from rot-gut,as to be steak compared to canned Spam.
As someone said on X, banning American “beer” is a public service.
BC Premier seems a little bit well unhinged? Isn’t the Port of Vancouver a popular place for China to ship the raw material for drugs into Mexico who ships them into the US?
Ok all you members of the Bronfman family, this is where you shine. Let’s go!!!!
You’ll be going the other way this time.
Shoot ourselves in the feet – that will teach the big bad man!
What an effin’ clown show…
Bingo. That’s exactly the Clown Show running the country and the provinces.
“We Need A Famine!”
No one should think for a second, that there’s not more news coming from the WH. The animus, deserved, at TruDOPE and his CCP minions is real, and won’t be left without more and harder responses.
If anyone thought travelling to the US at land crossings was hard, just wait.
Has anyone told old Dougie that no one needs Government liquor stores?
Trade wars are stupid.
Banning legal stuff is authoritarianism.
Letting the government control liquor sales is fcked up.
Doug Fatty Ford is a dickless fck.
One cannot help but notice that both the US and Canadian gov’ts are enriching themselves with tariffs at the expense of their respective populations.
The whole shebang is rotten to the core, and, as usual, its us little peons who pay the price.
This!
Stevie hit hardest …
All because Trudeau had to get into an ego-based pissing match with Trump.
He made fun of him, publicly.
He should have resigned instead of saying that he would resign at some future time. That wasn’t enough for Trump. To Trump, right now, Canada is Trudeau.
Well, that gives them something in common, to Trudeau, Canada is Trudeau.
During Prohibition Canadian whiskey was smuggled into the US.
Now it looks like American whiskey will be smuggled into Canada.
Call me a mule … last trip to see my daughter’s Canadian in-laws … I brought a few bottles of Bushmills … his native spirit
Dear readers at Small Dead Animals,,,
remember,,, Canada starting a trade war with the USA, isn’t about tariffs !!!
it’s about getting Liberals re-elected back into federal government !!!!!!!!!
Why wouldn’t our federal government want to address fentanyl in this country? why wouldn’t our government not want to address fentanyl crossing the border into our neighbor?
Canadian Media keep saying what a small amount is entering the USA,,, but that’s solely based on the amount that has been ceased at the border,,, not the actual amount the makes it way through into the States.
2) 1 4L bottles
1 Kg liquid honey
distilled water
1 airlock with stopper
Some brewing yeast
Sterilizing solution
Bottling bucket
Fruit juice added before you bottle for some
carbonation
Tools for measuring the alcohol content if you
care
Plastic bottles
Caps
Try it….. You’d be surprised
Plus it’s made with honey it’s good for you.
There are many examples of the Turd mouthing off behind DJT’s back .One would be a meeting held in Montreal where Trump left for a NATO meeting and no sooner had AF 1 lifted off the little Ahole couldn’t help himself . The expression “ chickens come home to roost “ comes to mind . Trump is holding all the cards right now and Canada better come up with a plan to deal with his perceived and actual grievances.
Funny thing is: The US liquor that are on the shelves were already bought and paid for by the liquor stores.
That doesn’t matter when there is an election to be won, and he wants to be seen “doing something”
Oh no.
This is no big deal. I doubt very much that any quantity of U.S. liquor is sold in Ontario – bourbon doesn’t seem to be popular (I can’t stand it personally). That leaves wine and U.S. wine (mainly from California) is too expensive mainly due to the U.S. dollar. I can find equal quality from France, Italy, Spain, etc. for much less and although there are many California/Oregon wines I like, they are too damn expensive with a 70 cent dollar.