Victor Yarbrough, co-founder of Brough Brothers Distillery, experiences a flood of negative emails following his comments on U.S.-Canada tariffs affecting his bourbon business. The emails express anger and concern about the potential repercussions of trade tensions, with some focusing more on Canada's sovereignty than the tariffs themselves. Yarbrough, who has fond memories of Canada, finds the responses shocking and hurtful. His distillery is the only Black-owned bourbon distillery in Kentucky, and the situation reflects wider political and economic challenges stemming from recent tariff decisions impacting goods between the two countries.
Ultimately, I think from what I've seen it's not really about tariffs, it's more about the sovereignty of Canada. That's what's really coming through in these emails.
The e-mails started shortly after Yarborough made appearances on both Canadian and American news outlets, talking about how the tariffs have negatively affected his business.
I'm just a farmer here in Canada but even I know this Canadian and probably world boycott could last four years.
You are heading for a full recession in the states with these moronic tariffs and talk of the 51st state bullshit.
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