Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sources

We can boycott places that carry American booze

But why indeed.

Unfortunately the death of CUSMA would destroy many Canadian small businesses, my own included. Nobody would buy my product if it suddenly shot up 20%-50% in price, even though there's no American alternative.

I'd rather we keep the fight up, but if we can get some leverage and buy time for US politics to shift, it'll probably be worth it.

Now if only you didn't vote in fascist traitors.

I mean, they can put it on the shelf, but you can't force people to buy it.

Quebec said they're not going to lift the bans so far.

Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said his government's 'resolve is firm' to keep U.S. liquor off store shelves until it sees the details of a deal.

That video is 7.5 minutes long, that I posted. It goes into more detail.

Well you and I won't, but I know there are those that will 🥲

Imagine being this braindead.

Same here.

I don't live in Canada anymore — and likely won't ever be able to afford to go back with the shit yen here and shit housing situation there — but I still stand by Canada and refuse to buy US products. Luckily, not only is it easy to avoid US brands Japan, but I can even look at whether main ingredients of a product come from the US and avoid those since we have so many choices. If my favourite brand of Japanese chips uses potatoes from the US, they go back on the shelf.

The hardest thing I stopped buying are games though. Not that there are US-made games that I absolutely need to get, but because I don't want to use Steam. Even though they're a pretty good company, I'd still rather not spend money on a US platform willingly. Surprisingly, I got shit on for having this stance in one of the games community on lemmy.ca.

Is it hard to stay away from US goods and services when you live in Canada? All my friends and family hate Trump, but they don't seem to have a hard boycott stance like me and I assumed it's because it's really difficult to do without paying a huge premium.

Carney sucks

Sort of. It sends a message worldwide that you can count on us. Reliable, predictable. A real partner.

The issue with that is, by the time the US liquor is sitting on the shelf for sale the US producers already got paid. The liquor is first bought by provincial distributors, even in Alberta via the AGLC, and then sold to the public from government stores, or sold to private liquor stores who then sell to the public. So if that US liquor hits the shelf and we boycott it, it's either our provincial governments or local liquor stores that take the hit. That's why the provincial level bans are angering the US liquor industry so much.

Appeasing the US by allowing their alcohol back on the shelves

Except that we should have learned by now that trying to appease a country who won't honour their own agreements is pointless.

What guarantees can there be that the US won't just reneg again after we appease them again?

They should have to demonstrate some level of trustworthiness before we even think about backing down.

The Canadian government saying that the ban is lifted is meaningless because they never banned alcohol anyway, as it's not their jurisdiction.

The lcbo, which is one of the world's largest alcohol customers, has not bought American liquor since march 2025.https://www.lcbo.com/content/lcbo/en/corporate-pages/lcbo-response-to-u-s--tariffs--q-a.html

There is. But it’s provincial and not in all provinces. Fed gov has no jurisdiction.

No, it will be a grassroots action only if people leave US booze on the shelves.