My dudes and ladies. Please don’t drink our booze. It’s loaded with oligarchy and fascism.
Seriously though, I hope everyone in Canada never buys a drop no matter how cheap.
probably e. coli as well… as most of the us groceries have it
I like you. You can come visit.
Stay if you like.
OK Carney; I’ll look around my house and if I find any US alcohol, I’ll return it to the store.
Sounds like the deal includes dropping the alcohol boycott, and building the keystone xl, a massive crude oil pipeline that gives Canada basically nothing given that the refining and final sale are done by US companies.
That’s the way Alberta wants it. A few oxy addicts in a backhoe feeding US industry. Every boom cycle they just grab the money and refuse to invest in local infrastructure. Keystone will never get built, it’s been on and off for over 12 years.
To me, that’s what’s tragic. I’m sure we have contract deals we must honor, but once those are up, we should tear down the pipeline and build our own refinery. Hell, start building the refinery now so it’s ready when the pipeline contract dies.
In the mean time, if they want to negotiate for more of our oil, tell them right where to go.
Disappointed, but not surprised. I’m going to have to just double down on boycotting more.
We really need to make it easier to buy Canadian booze from other parts of Canada. I’ve been picking up a different bottle of whiskey every time I go, but there’s always a piss poor selection from anywhere other than my province. I also don’t drink too much, so a bottle lasts quite a while, but still.
It’s reaching the point where we’re going to need to start boycotting Carney’s corporate backers, too. I would love to know who actually ghost wrote bill C22.
For a guy who was voted in to stand up to Trump, he really seems to be doing a lot of appeasement.
If it’s forced on the provincial liquor boards they should only accept us booze on consignment,
Yep it will be on the shelves but I suspect it’ll be there for a long long time not selling
I see it as an easy win for Canada because this started as a grassroots movement by the people. The provincial government removal from the shelves came afterwards, in support. Put the booze back, who cares. Most people still won’t purchase that fascist crap.
I don’t know if your faith in the Canadian consumer is warranted. There was just a radio piece I heard the other day on NPR about how Canadian tourism is already on the uptick in the United States. I think maybe the average Canadian doesn’t have the wherewithal you would like them to.
I think they said cross border trips. That could also be business trips, though I think there are many deals that people find enticing. I just can’t handle how weird the vibe is there, completely unenjoyable. I used to extent nearly every trip few a few days or stay the weekend, but now I can’t get in and out fast enough.
I think that the average Canadian has the wherewithal to proceed accordingly but those Canadians at each end of the bell curve? Maybe not.
I don’t know about people not purchasing. It may be the part of Canada I’m in, but USAian products aren’t sitting on the shelves for as long and a lot of people have lost the care to avoid them if they ever did. A great example was last summer when USAian watermelons were rotting in the bins at grocery stores while Mexican and Canadian ones were selling quickly. This year I’m seeing people pick them up without a care. It doesn’t help USAian companies are purposely hiding the origins and maple washing their products.
Plus, the uptick in Canadians travelling south of the border for non-work purposes means full acceptance and support for the USAian administration by those choosing to go to there.
I’m keeping up my boycott and always will. Those that don’t boycott when they can afford to or simply don’t care can be the first dealt with as traitors when the time inevitably comes.
You can replace USAian with just “US”
sure, recall the ban. let the market decide.
hopefully Canadians will continue not buying american stuff, and there won’t be a business case to stock it
Canadian alchys don’t give a fuck. The heavy drinkers in rural areas love Trump.
Do they represent a significant percentage of alcohol sales, though? Even if they drink three times what the average person does, if they only represent 3% of the population, they’re little more than a rounding error.
Do they represent a significant percentage of alcohol sales, though?
According to CAMH 25% are admitted heavy drinkers in Ontario. That’s just admitted.
Doesn’t mean they’re rural or can’t afford domestic booze, though.
They’ll care about price. I think the tariffs will ensure that the prices are just a bit higher than domestic stuff… Enough to have the drunkards reaching for Canadian brands.
I don’t know much about alcoholics, but I’m pretty sure they don’t have a lot of brand loyalty, and they’ll drink just about anything that contains alcohol, regardless of flavor, or quality. As long as they can get it cheap.
Fuck that, I don’t miss any of their crap
Restoring US alcohol to shelves is a bit premature considering we still have a potential 50% tariff over our heads.
Even without the tariff I certainly won’t buy it, hell they can even mark it 50% off.
Just price it absurdly, make a bottle of Jack Daniels $2,500 and if some dumbass buys it, the store gets a good payday and the bottling company successfully sells 1 bottle.
If the fact that it’s US booze doesn’t put you off, the increased prices from the tariff will!
I see this as an absolute win.
BCLiquor, NSLC, LCBO, SAQ can buy one case of American liquor each, and put one bottle in a cute little locked display case at each store.
This is the way.
I’m a fan of this. Just have a little graveyard area where any US booze lives. Put it in a locked cabinet so anyone who has decided to buy it can be judged appropriately.
Whenever the cabinet is opened, it plays the US National anthem throughout the store (probably a modified version that sounds like it’s been sung by a half dead cat to an out of tune piano, and in a different key to make it sound tragic). This way, everyone there can know that some one has willingly chosen to buy their crap and can look over at who they are so you can remember not to do that person any favors in the future.
Fuck everything about what the US is doing. Fuck them. Americans, I’ll judge on a case by case basis, but America can get bent.
🖕🖕🍁🍁🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🍁🖕🖕
No one wants to hear the First Lady try to sing that!
So the booze bans, if I remember right, came in as part of the response to the US imposing tariffs, tariffs they justified with a flimsy excuse of ‘fentanyl!’. The US didn’t like that we responded to their clearly abusive/disrespectful tariffs, by applying more tariffs. Now Carney is negotiating to lower those tariffs in part by ending what little resistance/push-back Canada had shown.
Carney’s disappointing.
Still better than PP.
As Trump’s lapdog it’s hard to say he’s better. He’s the equivalent of what we thought PP would be.
Then you had a far higher opinion of PP than many of the people I know.
PP would keep us in CUSMA, something we assume LeBlanc is still working to get us out of.
PP would deport more people than he’d let in. We’re already doing that. Even stripping people of citizenship.
PP will destroy the environment with a pro oil agenda. We’re already doing that.
PP will go after minorities. Carney’s indigenous record shows we’re doing that.
PP will privatize public assets. Carney appears to be doing that.
PP will end pharmacare. Carney seems to have done that.
PP will side Trump. Look at Iran and explain how Carney isn’t doing that.
PP will put Canada further behind by cutting scientific research. Carney already did that.
zzz. PP’s conservatives had a DOGE-North campaign ready to go, because they thought Musks approach was awesome – there were lots of photos of it coming from their Alberta nerve center, when they thought it’d get them votes, even wearing red MCGA hats and all. Saying Carney’s fucking up things like social services is warranted criticism, yes, but PP would’ve butchered everything. And what’s this nonsense about “He’d keep us in CUSMA!”, the fuck? What is PP, the diaper whisperer? PP would’ve spread his cheeks so far apart to accept Donalds droopy dick, I don’t even know what bizarro rationale you’re using to pretend like he’d somehow magically solve anything at all – if he’d been able to ‘stay’ in the agreement the US wants out of, then he would’ve done it by conceding to every demand ever made by the Americans. And where’s his negotiating expertise coming from exactly anyhow, what with PP’s complete lack of any actual working experience outside of parliament? The states would’ve said “Fentanyl!” and PP would’ve accepted their bullshit messaging, designed a whole propaganda campaign around how fentanyl was “a MASSIVE problem in Canada, HUGE, some even say bigger than those forest fires and stuff!”, then he’d label it as a China drug and start targeting asian immigrants etc. Last election, the Canadian conservatives literally used the same campaign slogans as Trump - “Make Canada Great Again” and “Canada First” bullshit, and you want to pretend like they’d do anything but bend over for Trump? Absolute fantasist horseshit.
But whatever floats your boat I guess, you can suck off conservatives all day for all I care.
With all the cuts Carney has done the difference between him and doge North is marketing.
He’d keep us in CUSMA!”,
Canada doesn’t want to trade with the US. While we know we’re trying to negotiate out of it it’s uncertain if Carney can get us out or if he’s just going to keep sucking Trump’s dick. Presumably PP would suck Trump’s dick instead of getting us out of it.
PP would’ve spread his cheeks so far apart to accept Donalds droopy dick,
So no different.
The states would’ve said “Fentanyl!” and PP would’ve accepted their bullshit messaging,
He might open ICE offices in Canada or increase boarder security like Carney has.
you want to pretend like they’d do anything but bend over for Trump? Absolute fantasist horseshit.
No, I’m just not pretending Carney isn’t.
But whatever floats your boat I guess, you can suck off conservatives all day for all I care.
Carney is a conservative, think what you want but you’re the one defending them not I.
Honestly as long as we don’t give in to the stupid military procurement crap(F35s, E7 Wedgetail, & Golden Dome) that was being floated I’m ok with the alcohol back on the shelves(alcohol is a dumb consumer good we can easily replace. Military hardware and contracts not so much). it costs us very little and can be re-implemented fast if that idiot plays dumb games. Let him strut around like some dumb peacock that got a big win while i refuse to buy it. If we can ship the oil south to keep Alberta placated with a bunch of new pipelines to busy themselves with that O&G Execs realize only get completed if the referendum fails, the referendum will get crushed and we can go back to focusing on electrification/EV’s/Transit for Canada as a whole and replacing our dumbass premier’s that have gotten cover from “Donny Dumbass”. Hopefully with everything else going so shittily for the him, he’ll be too distracted till after midterms that we can negotiate the rest of this horseshit away during CUSMA re-negotiations.
