JUST NOW: America's Own Liquor Industry TURNS ON Trump's Tariffs

American whiskey distillers have to plan and project years in advance due to the necessity of aging the product. The process has been working quite well for decades. Then along comes trump....

Okay, so here I am sitting up in downtown Toronto which is a 4 hour drive west of Ottawa. Liquor in Canada is only sold in special government-controlled "liquor stores" which sell nothing else but beer, wine and liquor. Liquor and wine are tightly controlled so that kids can't get near the stuff, whereas beer is sold at the local 7-11 store by the case, not by the can.

I don't drink alcohol but I have wandered into the liquor store across the street from where I live in south Toronto by the lake. When things were fine between Canada and the USA, nobody knew where the liquor was distilled when it sat on the shelf because Canadian and American booze was basically mixed like breakfast cereal on a grocer's store shelves. It all looked the same and everyone knew where their favorite flavor was located in the store, so there was never any real shopping happening when any Canadian walked in to buy his weekly ration of 12 bottles of whiskey... or wine.

That has not been the case since Trump started the Trade War with Canada.

When the American booze came off the shelves in Canada, the liquor store owners made it obvious by leaving huge open spaces in the middle of their shelving aisles. There was a sign erected that said "Buy Canadian Liquor", with arrows pointing left and right to where the so-called 'good stuff' was still sitting proud on the shelves. Obviously, the American 'bad stuff' was missing from the equation.

It sat like that for months in liquor stores, I don't know how long really, until finally in this past 2 weeks, PM Carney agreed to put American booze back on the shelves in Canada.

I walked into the liquor store 2 weeks ago and sure enough, there was the American booze back on the shelf with a sign overhead the American 'bad stuff' that said, "Product of the USA". I wouldn't know bad stuff from good stuff, so don't take my word for it.

Suddenly, less than a week later after the Trade negotiation rapidly imploded in Washington, the American booze was quickly removed from the shelves once again when I checked it the very next day, which was yesterday (Saturday).

In less than 12 hours after Canada walking out of the meeting and heading back to Ottawa, the American booze was already off the shelf in every liquor store in Canada again, not just in Toronto where I live, but everywhere including as far north as Hudsons Bay.

People interviewed on the streets of Toronto are totally pissed with the USA and the attitude that comes across the border to Canada. I mean, die-hard American booze-loving Canadians are saying nasty things about Americans and declare they'll never drink another bottle of Jack Daniels or whatever the other stuff is called, for as long as they live... because of the bullshitte that's coming out of the USA about Canada and Trump's rhetoric about the 51st State shitte.

...and that's only the American liquor sector. Americans may not realize this, but Canada has distilleries too and they've been running double shifts since the Trade war got started with Trump's tariffs.

What else do you want to know?