Juno News - April 02, 2026


Canada’s U.S. liquor ban sparks blowback


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1 minute

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145.04109

Word count

253

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15

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Misogyny

1

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In this episode, we talk about the ban on U.S. liquor sales in Canada and why it s a dumb idea. We also talk about why the ban is a bad idea and what we should do about it.

Transcript

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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 0.89
00:01:29.620 is just such a a dumb strategy in general to grand scheme of things of what's happening here