Juno News - Canada’s U.S. liquor ban sparks blowback

00:00:00.000 But I do want to ask you about this latest report. This is from Jameson Greer, the U.S. trade rep,

00:00:06.080 who basically has kind of thrown down the gauntlet a little bit on the issue of

00:00:12.640 U.S. liquor sales or products in Canada. Because as you know, Ontario and other provinces,

00:00:18.720 many other provinces, most have basically banned the sale of U.S. liquor products in retaliation

00:00:24.160 for the tariffs that we saw from the Trump administration. And apparently we got their

00:00:28.880 attention because they've, they've come out and basically said, we really don't

00:00:33.080 like this and you know, this is something that's got to stop.

00:00:36.920 Uh, I can, uh, ask you now what you think about that?

00:00:43.160 Well, the, the really big overall question is what are they trying to

00:00:47.480 do with this strategy?

00:00:50.000 Uh, at the end of the day, we should be in negotiations.

00:00:53.960 The KUSMA negotiations is happening this year.

00:00:56.560 It's one of the most important, uh, trade documents we have.

00:01:01.020 Uh, it gives us essentially a 98% tariff, uh, free, uh, trade with the

00:01:08.200 U S on a 98% of the tariff lines.

00:01:11.780 Uh, it's governs $4 billion in daily trade and to throw things into the wind

00:01:19.120 and just to piss people off that you should be trying to negotiate with and

00:01:23.140 save our economy over you know a couple hundred million dollars worth of liquor sales if that

00:01:29.620 is just such a a dumb strategy in general to grand scheme of things of what's happening here

Juno News - April 02, 2026