28 Replies to “The Great Negotiator”

  1. I’d love to go wine tasting there in the BEAUTIFUL Okanagan Valley with Stevie. Then we can retire to his place in the country for the single malt … birds chirping and Moose, eh?

    1. Kenji,
      Come on up and we can do the tour.
      Heck, I live 10 minutes from Ancient Hill winery. We could walk, but it’s uphill.
      As for retiring for single malt…I am a rye guy.
      My taste for whiskey is recently to imbibing Wiser’s Deluxe, made in Winsor Ontario since 1857, and casked near the new Gordie Howe Bridge. Imagine that.
      Oh, and plenty of chirping birds at my place beside the creek, but no moose, just elk, deer, and damn marmots.
      PS. I went to a privately owned liquor store in Kelowna today, and it has US whiskey. Don’t tell our premier, Eby about it, as he claims we don’t stock it because Trump and all that tiresome shit.
      Also, interprovincial trade in this benighted country is a joke. No wonder we fail at larger trade.
      OK, another wee drap and off to see the sandman.

      1. Woah!? A private liquor store … in Canada!? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one of those. I thought the government mandated they be the only ones serving the Canadian drunks. I can do Rye … standing on my head … if I could support the body weight …

        1. Should you make it to BC, do a side trip to the future Republic of Alberta. You won’t find a government liquor store as they simply do not exist.

          2. While Alberta was the first province to have private ethanol stores outside of Quebec, it should be noted that the provincial liquor board still exists(sort of) and all of the ethanol drinks route through the Union liquor board warehouses before being distributed to the private stores.
            For Kenji’s edification I present the Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis board.
            https://aglc.ca/liquor/warehouse-and-distribution
            All of Alberta’s taxable sins(except tobacco?) under one roof.

  2. The “leaders” of the country aren’t worth the steam of my piss.
    You could spend all day slapping the shit out of them and they’d still be full of it.
    Can anyone imaging any of these little people with little ideas having the courage to reduce the price of Canadian products for Canadians?
    Carney’s a eunuch and the premier’s a harem of ugly, fat chicks with crabs and chlamydia.

  4. “And the question is, are they (Canadian Premiers) going to actually do something, or are they going to provide lip service?”

    Well, not just lip services. Tongue baths too.

  5. An Old Story
    Anyone who does actual work and produces something is a target for the government leaches.

    1. Makers are the targets of Takers.
      It’s as old as the oldest profession in the world.

    2. In Canada there is a rule, if it’s profitable tax it, if it’s still profitable regulate it, when it becomes unprofitable subsidize it.

  6. I can’t help noticing that the entire conversation is based around mark-ups from the Liquor Control Board of 300% domestically which disallows Canadian vineyards to grow their business within the country, while the chevron at the bottom of the screen for the entire interview is “Trump’s Trade War”.

    1. “while the chevron at the bottom of the screen for the entire interview is “Trump’s Trade War”.”

      Yeah, I got the distinct impression from her choice of words that she was trying (and failing) to steer the conversation in the direction of “Orange man bad”. To his credit, he was having none of it. I’m going to stop in at his winery next time I am in the area.

      It also occurs to me that most Canadians don’t even realize that we have inter-provincial trade barriers in place for all kinds of goods…they think that Canada is Canada, and that’s it.

      1. I just opined about our interprovincial trade barriers to Kenji above.
        It is a joke, and I learned about how convoluted it is in my working life, from a ridiculous public sector perspective.
        It is why Canada sucks at trade.
        Why?
        Because a house divided against itself cannot stand.
        PS. Sorry if I just paraphrased something biblical.

  7. my story of totally-f-ed-up is from my time living in niagara region. its 1980s.
    changes in the wine trade made it unprofitable for grape growers and vineyard operators.
    so 1000s of acres of vines carefully tended nurtured for generations are all torn up.
    except now the farmers, with all this acreage laying ‘fallow’, cant sell ANY of it to developers because of odder rhulz. theyre stuck. cant use the land, cant sell it tq tq tq tq tq Canaduh, Ontariowe, Liberals, CONS, etc etc.

  8. In Spain I can get a bottle of decent wine for less than two dollars. Similar bottle of imported Spanish wine here in Ontario is ten dollars. About the cheapest Ontario wine is about 15 dollars and I don’t think the LCBO carries any other Canadian wine. If they do I’ve never seen it.

    1. Canadian wine isn’t worth the cost….if you want good wine, get Argentinian wine…..especially their Malbec.

      1. I disagree. IMO there is a lot of good wine produced in Ontario. I particularly like the offerings from Sandbanks of Prince Edward County.

  10. An interesting topic that touches on several issues all at once.
    Interprovincial trade barriers create higher prices for consumers, drives producers to sell outside of the country to make a profit — which means the logistics networks aren’t geared towards domestic trade, and it will cost to refocus them.
    The value of the Canadian dollar is going down — this makes it easier for U.S. buyers to swallow the tariffs until they can source from someplace else and retool their logistics networks; what is the percentage of export from the U.S. to Canada (which will be affected by the drop in value of the $CAN), and in particular, what are the percentages of trade going from the U.S. into Canada in particular areas of commerce, because the price is going up; this will also affect trade with other countries, who will likely want better trade deals from Canada, seeing as how it will either be them or the U.S. And then there is the temptation to export more from Canada because other countries can afford to buy, rather than domestic consumption.

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