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 ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ ๐น๐ค & Buy Canadian Warrior40I don't really trust the CBC, and their non-stop blather about ๐. Whatever is done is done in our best interests, and Canadians have already polled 75% will never buy U.S. booze againโ you can't legislate Canadians wallets. Stay nasty! ๐คฃ๐จ๐ฆ๐ช
Second Life Kay29You cannot appease a monster.
๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐ (๐๐/๐๐๐/๐๐๐) ๐จ๐ฆ27You can put U.S. products back on the shelves, but Canadians can't be forced to buy them.
Inspired By My Mom22Even 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
Serafina21I agree with you. Choices like these are the ones that make people begin to seriously question their leadership. Weโve been doing our part to boycott American products, and our leadership should be doing the same.
Stephen Greene ๐จ๐ฆ17Agreed but if it goes back on the shelves we don't need to buy it. A citizens boycott can continue.
Swolesome is tired ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ8@mark-carney.bsky.social donโt you dare concede after campaigning on โelbows upโ. Donโt stab us in the back again by revealing yet another lie. Canadians want real leadership, not soulless neoliberals who serve their corporate overlordsโ economic interests while damning the rest of us.
Peter Dudley ๐จ๐ฆ4+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 โso called dealsโ mean sweet FA. In adversity we must rise to the challenge. ๏ฟผ
Grandma Angie ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ฆ2I agree with @charlieangus104.bsky.social No caving! The current U.S. administration is captive to the worst president ever and canโt be trusted.
Fuuuuuck this capitulating, weak-ass, Neville Chamberlain-level bullshit. Our line should be either Trump drops ALL of his tariffs and his attacks on Canada's sovereignty or we start banning even more American shit. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
BZ26Maybe all it will take is just 1 more appeasement!
Dr. Andy Holt23Agreed. However Carney lifting booze bans doesnโt mean self-respecting Canadians will start buying their shitty beer and wine again.
Steve Ricketts15Even if provinces lift their ban on American booze, I and many others will not resume buying it
Hilary Wollis12๐ช Nobody can make me buy US Booze. ๐ช Nobody can make me buy US dairy -> I will become single -minded in hunting it down in any dairy-containing product I purchase.
T. Ryan Gregory ๐จ๐ฆ12Brace for the Carney fan rationalizations in your comments.
๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ค๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ญ๐ฆ๐บ ๐11There is no appeasing the likes of tRUmp. He will always come back for more. Carney is making a big mistake if he thinks any of this will work in his favour.
Andrew Lewis FC29Carney's naรฏvetรฉ & cowardice is astounding. Even if he wasn't PM based on the express promise he wouldn't cave to Trump's gangster imperialism, Trump has never honoured a deal in his life, including the one he is breaking at this moment. It's like Carney just arrived on Earth from Planet Banking.
male to fujoshi transsexual9Do you think that Trump knows the difference between government policy and voluntary boycotting?
๐๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐๐8I stand with the Canandian who wrote this take.
Max2The Liberals are once again selling us out to the Americans. Carney never bought into 'elbows up', he just said it to get you to vote for him.
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 K24I still wonโt buy American products if there is a Canadian option or any other country.
Victoria McIntosh20Exactly. And every concession is a signal to him he can ask for more.
Bruce ๐จ๐ฆ13๐ฏ. But I think it'll turn out to be a mostly symbolic gesture, because it seems like nobody's going to buy their ๐ฉ anyway.
Randy Luckham ๐จ๐ฆ12The grassroots effort here seems real. Putting it back on the shelf might not make a big difference to sales.. We shall seeโฆ maybe.
Not Vex as in ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ but Vex as in ๐ณ๏ธโ๐10This 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 ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ง ๐จ๐ฆ9That's offensive, Clare. To squirrels on cocaine.
LLFella ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ10You can try to bring it back, but we ain't buyin' it. I'm starting to look at you sideways, Mister Carney.
Dragonlou ๐ #ElbowsUp 9They can lift the bans. Me and all of my friends still won't buy their products. ๐
Jake Goldsbie9Okay but show me one time in history where appeasing a racist fascist went badly
Amanda โพ๏ธ7They can bring it back and watch it languish on the shelf. I wonโt 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 donโt 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.
@mark-carney.bsky.social can kill the booze ban. It doesn't mean we Canadians will buy any of that US made shit. Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sources. ELBOWS UP ! DON'T BUY ANY U.S. MADE OR GROWN CRAP !! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Unapologetic Lee ๐จ๐ฆ14This was published a few days ago. www.cp24.com/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
alicided.bsky.social8Yup, not buying anything American.
Lee7You can fill the liquor store with exclusively American booze and I would quit drinking before buying American. Fuck off, and when you are done fucking off, fuck off some more.
Connie7Seems like us regular folks are doing the work, while Carney caves to a bully. Again.
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐ฆ Garth Caron4No US Booze in our stores, and No caving in on Canadian Supply Chain, No US dairy on our store shelves. Take the tariff on soft wood lumber, and negotiate, no gas, oil if they don't remove it. We want made in Canada Gas Price, not world price!
Make CBC great again3Is it not up to provinces to remove booze bans??
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 Potato21This 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 ๐คท)
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.
Something funny happened on the way to today, Canucks grew a spine. They won't obey Trump or Hoekstras's demands, but PM #Carney can try. Many will NEVER go back to US booze or drink their milk in exchange for aluminum. Don't tell us to flip our hearts to appease the orange monster. #Canada๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐น
Short Stack Fella ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ4The politicians might decide to end the ban and put US booze back on the shelves, but I for one wonโt be buying any. And I wonโt be the only one. And not just because American beer is like having sex in a canoe (i.e., fโ-ing close to water)โฆ
๐จ๐ฆ Mr. Puggins ๐จ๐ฆ2All booze bans are provincial, I don't see how Ottawa is going to lift them.
KChevy ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐2I donโt want their crappy milk in our stores.
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 Dawe19"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 P6Thereโs also clearly some inter-outlet slap fight going on here; CTV managed to get some different sources.
Steve Lafleur4There 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.
alexander solsten3I agree in principle but itโs probably cause no one trusts them to hold up their end?
JackTatt ๐จ๐ฆ2It seems weird to drop all our leverage in exchange for only some of what we want. If we want no tariffs, then why would we drop all our leverage on the promise of say 10% tariffs. Itโs like negotiating with you to buy your car for $5000 and agreeing to give you $5000 just for the roof rack.
