The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has defended this Sunday the need to “choose Canada” in purchases in.
“It is time to choose products manufactured right here, in Canada. Check the labels. Let’s do our part. Whenever we can, let’s choose Canada,” said Trudeau in a message posted on his account on the social network X first in French and then in English.
Trudeau has thus responded to The climbing of the tariff war launched by Trumpwhich has imposed tariffs on its three main commercial partners: Canada, Mexico and China. Canada and Mexico have already announced reciprocal measures to assess US products in retaliation for the measure approved by Trump and will enter into force next Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the first effects of the incipient trade war already begins to be visible: the Disappearance of the US wines, beers and liquors from Canada stores. This Sunday, the province of Ontario, the most industrial and populated in the country, announced that as of Tuesday LCBO stores (the provincial company that until recently had the monopoly for the sale of alcoholic products in the territory) will stop selling “Made in USA” drinks.
The measure is significant: LCBO, one of the largest individual buyers of alcoholic products in the world, sells American alcoholic beverages every year worth 1,000 million Canadian dollars (680 million dollars in the US).
The province of British Columbia has also taken a similar measure although a bit more refined: The provincial monopoly will stop selling drinks produced in the so -called “red” states of the USU, those who are under control of Trump’s Republican Party.
The decision has begun to repeat in the rest of the country: Quebec, Nueva Scotia, Terranova and Labrador have also ordered their alcoholic beverage stores to stop placing American items on their shelves.
These provincial measures against American alcohol are independent of 25% tariffs that the Federal Government of Canada will begin to apply to some imports from the US from Tuesday.
