Think you can still bring a bottle of your favourite Niagara red or Ontario-made whisky to your grandparents’ place in Florida?
Think again, according to trade lawyers and the Canadian Snowbird Association, who say there appears to be no personal exemption when it comes to Donald Trump’s import ban on a wide array of Canadian alcohol products.
That means you can no longer bring even a single bottle of Canadian-made beer, wine or spirits into the U.S. — whether you’re willing to pay duty on it or not, said international trade lawyer Barry Appleton.
“A ban is an absolute prohibition. A tariff is a price a person can pay, and a personal allowance can forgive a duty. Neither can make a prohibited good admissible,” said Appleton, co-director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School, and a fellow at the University of Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International Affairs.
WHY ARE YOU STILL GOING TO THE UNTIED STATES
Fuckem. A bunch of boomers and genx that are spending a lifetime of Canadian income in the most backwards US state.
Stop spending Canadian money in the US you selfish fucks
This is kind of funny to read after spending nearly 2 years listening to snowbirds talk about how hard they’re not gonna snowbird anymore now that the US is meaner to them. I wonder if the booze ban will be the real last straw.
Many boomer snowbirds only care about themselves.
“Boomer,” colloquially, but the bigoted conversation my other comment mentions included two couples under 60. This is a privilege issue, not age.
If America chases all the snowbirds away, there won’t be any decent people left in the country.
If a Canadian is still choosing to vacation in the US, especially long-term, I’m not sure they fall under what I would call ‘decent’.
Haha, well, the worst Canadian is the best American. Soooo 🙃
If that were the case, the fascism wouldn’t be as successful here as it is. Or did you forget that the people here were a month away from electing PP until Trump swung the election for anyone critical of him specifically?
Fascism is everywhere. One of them has an election a month away, and that’s a pivotal date for all of us.
Oh, so if it’s “everywhere,” that doesn’t indicate a fundamental sickness in Canadian culture if the people here didn’t view genocide rhetoric as a deal-breaker, they’re just doing what everyone else is doing. It’s worth noting that the admin that did win (and is wildly popular compared to previous admins) has also been eroding indigenous sovereignty rights, openly supported the invasion of Iran, and lifted environmental and agricultural industrial restrictions.
What exactly is your issue with Americans, then?
You don’t know? Gosh. You must live under a rock. Have a lovely day.
I guess I see more from under this rock than you do in Australia. Don’t run then condemn those who can’t, it’s shitty.
Saying that it is safe to assume that affluent Canadians are decent people suggests little experience with affluent Canadians, or an affluent Canadian with no self-awareness.
Funny to read this right after Thanksgiving, where I met no fewer than 6 snowbirds who thought Muslims and South Asians are one of Canada’s biggest problems right now; second to the US, of course.
edit: Ugh, I just realized this is the same dick who said that people are weak for not fighting the state even though they moved to Australia and don’t intend to come help in that fight. They go on here to say that it is conservative to support immigration, and that they are against American immigration (apparently they’re special enough that it’s fine to emigrate) but are supposedly not a conservative.
What a funny coincidence specifically in this context, starting to see a pattern here. This is a person who is mad that Americans make their own harmful values look bad, not someone who is angered by harmful values.
What’s weird is my immigrant brown friend, votes against immigrant positive policy and for conservative policy because he thinks immigrants are the problem in Canada. YouTube algorithm has got him.
And still… I’ll bet none of them wanted to round them up and put them in internment camps and deport them to whichever random country was next on the list to be used as forced prison labor.
lol. Literally, the discussion was about how the international student cap* wasn’t enough, and Palestinians shouldn’t get special treatment if they are “antisemitic,” or make fun of soldiers. I couldn’t imagine a better analogue.
Fuck off. It’s good to be critical of the US, but if you’re going to use it to whitewash Canada, you’re a problem for all of us.
Fair enough.
