"Peter Bethlenfalvy made the remarks in a wide-ranging year-end interview with CBC News. The finance minister oversees the arms-length LCBO on behalf of Premier Doug Ford's government and issued the directive to the agency in early 2025 to pull U.S. booze off of store shelves in retaliation for the tariffs introduced by Trump. It's a move the government stands by, he says."
"Dropping provincial boycotts is part of a longer list of conditions U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer said last month that Canada must meet in order to extend the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA). Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, has said the ban, and a decline in Canadian tourism, are "why the president and some of his team referred to Canada as being mean and nasty to deal with, OK, because of some of those steps.""
Ontario's finance minister ordered the LCBO to remove U.S. alcoholic products in early 2025 as retaliation for U.S. tariffs. The finance minister vowed the boycott will remain until the tariffs are fully removed, saying '100 per cent' removal is the only condition for lifting the boycott. Some other provinces resumed U.S. alcohol sales, but Ontario stands firm. U.S. trade officials and the ambassador say provincial booze bans are a barrier to trade talks and part of conditions tied to CUSMA extensions. The finance minister noted broader irritants such as steep U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium.
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