Canada prepared to halt booze bans in exchange for tariff relief
If the PM offers to end the booze ban without the US agreeing to a complete roll back of Trump's unilateral tariff war he will be waving the white flag. And Trump will come for more. Canadians have stood firm on the booze ban. The PM needs to have our back. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior37I don't really trust the CBC, and their non-stop blather about 🍊. Whatever is done is done in our best interests, and Canadians have already polled 75% will never buy U.S. booze again— you can't legislate Canadians wallets. Stay nasty! 🤣🇨🇦💪
Second Life Kay28You cannot appease a monster.
🍁𝙽𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙹𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚎 (𝚑𝚎/𝚑𝚒𝚖/𝚑𝚒𝚜) 🇨🇦27You can put U.S. products back on the shelves, but Canadians can't be forced to buy them.
Inspired By My Mom21Even if he overrides the ban latest polling shows that 74% of Canadians will not buy US booze even if it was on shelves at liquor stores
Stephen Greene 🇨🇦17Agreed but if it goes back on the shelves we don't need to buy it. A citizens boycott can continue.
Serafina17I agree with you. Choices like these are the ones that make people begin to seriously question their leadership. We’ve been doing our part to boycott American products, and our leadership should be doing the same.
Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️⚧️7@mark-carney.bsky.social don’t you dare concede after campaigning on “elbows up”. Don’t stab us in the back again by revealing yet another lie. Canadians want real leadership, not soulless neoliberals who serve their corporate overlords’ economic interests while damning the rest of us.
Peter Dudley 🇨🇦3+1. Exactly this. No deal if tariffs are still on the table @mark-carney.bsky.social. Stand up for #Canada. #cdnpoli
Boulder Voter Rob3No matter what, NEVER buy bourbon again. Didn't get threatened into compliance.
Lester2There is no appeasement for a pedophile.
Val Zaza2I as so many other Canadians will stay true to my ethics. I will never give in to Trumps lunacy, blatant ignorance and disrespect. His word and “so called deals” mean sweet FA. In adversity we must rise to the challenge. 
Grandma Angie 🇦🇺🇨🇦2I agree with @charlieangus104.bsky.social No caving! The current U.S. administration is captive to the worst president ever and can’t be trusted.
I sure hope Canada is prepared to bring said booze bans back when Trump inevitably threatens tariffs again five minutes later because he has the reliability and mental stability of a squirrel on cocaine www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Big Scotty K20I still won’t buy American products if there is a Canadian option or any other country.
Victoria McIntosh15Exactly. And every concession is a signal to him he can ask for more.
Randy Luckham 🇨🇦12The grassroots effort here seems real. Putting it back on the shelf might not make a big difference to sales.. We shall see… maybe.
Bruce 🇨🇦11💯. But I think it'll turn out to be a mostly symbolic gesture, because it seems like nobody's going to buy their 💩 anyway.
Not Vex as in 🏳️🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️🌈10This doesn't even feel like it's in Carney's ability to promise. Feds don't have any jurisdiction over provincial liquor sales.
Mike The Canstralian 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇨🇦9That's offensive, Clare. To squirrels on cocaine.
LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦10You can try to bring it back, but we ain't buyin' it. I'm starting to look at you sideways, Mister Carney.
Dragonlou 🍁 #ElbowsUp 9They can lift the bans. Me and all of my friends still won't buy their products. 🙄
Jake Goldsbie9Okay but show me one time in history where appeasing a racist fascist went badly
Amanda ⚾️7They can bring it back and watch it languish on the shelf. I won’t be buying it.
Kelly4I think Carney has faith that the majority of the Canadian public WILL NOT be purchasing said booze.
Mikepedia3What US officials have completely failed to understand is that regardless of whether their products are available on Canadian shelves, a majority of Canadians are no longer interested in buying them. Almost as if the capitalists forgot how the free market works.
Tony Walsh3I don’t drink bourbon; and us wines can go off on the shelves.
Rick2Carney doesn't have elbows. We do, cancel the bans, the ban is not what is causing the vast majority of us to ignore US booze. A lot of ours is better anyway.
It somehow seems to have been forgotten that the bans on US alcohol were in response to American tariffs that were put in place first. I'm not sure why we'd agree to remove them for anything other than the US removing all the measures it started this mess with. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato19This is how I learned American liquor isn't on the shelves in other provinces lol (Look, I live in Alberta; liquor stores are privately owned and ran. I don't think any of the stores I went to pulled US liquor off the shelf. We just didn't buy it 🤷)
Amy Elizabeth8As a U.S. citizen I am BEGGING Canadians to push for MORE bans on U.S. products and services. Don't do business with us. Don't travel here. We are toxic and should be treated as such.
E.K. Johnston7If I thought *any* of the premieres were capable of playing chess instead of checkers, sacrificing the alcohol ban to preserve our dairy industry rules is absolutely worth it. Instead it's just...annoying. And we can maintain the ban ourselves.
Ms.ShaunaLouise3I live outside of Vancouver and I didn't even know there was a US booze ban. There's always been US alcohol available since this started, which I guess has been old stock? Lifting the "booze ban" doesn't mean you can get Canadians back to buying US booze or US products. I think Carney knows this.
I am baffled by the reaction to this reporting. I swear some of you think that we can have some sort of no-take-only-throw trade deal with the United States. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Brendan Dawe15"But our leverage!" The purpose of leverage...is to lever. Are you just not reading the part where the US is supposed to lower tariffs as part of this exchange? Were you expecting them to just give in to the righteousness of our position while we for some reason continue with retaliatory measures?
Nick P3There’s also clearly some inter-outlet slap fight going on here; CTV managed to get some different sources.
alexander solsten2I agree in principle but it’s probably cause no one trusts them to hold up their end?
Steve Lafleur2There is nothing that makes my head hurt quite like reactions to leaked conversations about Carney negotiations (foreign or intergovernmental). People just immediately jump to conclusions based on their weird interpretations of his actual public statements.
