Ontario Leads Canadian Boycott of American Alcohol Amid Trade Tensions

Only hours after the trade war between the USA and Canada came into effect, several provinces announce that they will stop selling American alcohol.

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Ontario Leads Canadian Boycott of American Alcohol Amid Trade Tensions
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The country's most populous province, Ontario, took the lead and announced that around 3,600 USA-manufactured alcoholic beverages that were sold are no longer available through the province-owned distributor LCBO.

Several other provinces soon followed Ontario in the boycott, reports news agency AFP.

Ontario sells, according to public service company CBC, American spirits annually for more than corresponding to seven billion kronor.

Ontario's governor Doug Ford announces simultaneously that the province is terminating the contract – worth corresponding to around 750 million kronor – with Elon Musk's satellite network Starlink as a protest against Donald Trump's tariff decision.

This is nothing anyone wanted. We could have put our energy into making Canada and the USA the two richest and most successful countries on the planet. Unfortunately, one man, President Trump, has chosen this instead, he says.

Both the alcohol boycott and the Starlink decision are the same as Canada came up with when Trump threatened with the tariffs in early February that are now being implemented.

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