Nah. Not only will I not buy US booze, I'm going to continue to not buy US anything that I can help. I've put more money into Canadians' pockets in the last few years than maybe my whole life and I'm feeling pretty damn good about it.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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A lot of the comments here aged like milk.
If it's forced on the provincial liquor boards they should only accept us booze on consignment,
Yep it will be on the shelves but I suspect it'll be there for a long long time not selling
Disappointed, but not surprised. I'm going to have to just double down on boycotting more.
We really need to make it easier to buy Canadian booze from other parts of Canada. I've been picking up a different bottle of whiskey every time I go, but there's always a piss poor selection from anywhere other than my province. I also don't drink too much, so a bottle lasts quite a while, but still.
It's reaching the point where we're going to need to start boycotting Carney's corporate backers, too. I would love to know who actually ghost wrote bill C22.
For a guy who was voted in to stand up to Trump, he really seems to be doing a lot of appeasement.
Fuck that, I don't miss any of their crap
I see it as an easy win for Canada because this started as a grassroots movement by the people. The provincial government removal from the shelves came afterwards, in support. Put the booze back, who cares. Most people still won't purchase that fascist crap.
I don't know if your faith in the Canadian consumer is warranted. There was just a radio piece I heard the other day on NPR about how Canadian tourism is already on the uptick in the United States. I think maybe the average Canadian doesn't have the wherewithal you would like them to.
I think they said cross border trips. That could also be business trips, though I think there are many deals that people find enticing. I just can't handle how weird the vibe is there, completely unenjoyable. I used to extent nearly every trip few a few days or stay the weekend, but now I can't get in and out fast enough.
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I don't know about people not purchasing. It may be the part of Canada I'm in, but USAian products aren't sitting on the shelves for as long and a lot of people have lost the care to avoid them if they ever did. A great example was last summer when USAian watermelons were rotting in the bins at grocery stores while Mexican and Canadian ones were selling quickly. This year I'm seeing people pick them up without a care. It doesn't help USAian companies are purposely hiding the origins and maple washing their products.
Plus, the uptick in Canadians travelling south of the border for non-work purposes means full acceptance and support for the USAian administration by those choosing to go to there.
I'm keeping up my boycott and always will. Those that don't boycott when they can afford to or simply don't care can be the first dealt with as traitors when the time inevitably comes.
Carney is weak AF.
As I wrote before, I think this is strategic maneuvering on the alcohol ban on his part. On paper he can make it look like we're acquiescing to their demand, while in practice it won't make a noticeable dent in their alcohol sales.
I'm sorry, but this is silly. This is an issue because American liquor companies are taking a financial hit and they are making it an issue. If the finances don't recover, they are not going to stop making it an issue, whatever tricks we might manage that technically satisfies a deal. We are dealing with gangsters. The best move is not to concede.
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If putting booze back on shelves restores US sales, then it's Canada that is weak and pathetic.
JFC we quickly forget Trump had a huge number of supporters in Canada before 2024.
I know. His cult extends beyond the U.S. borders.
That's why we gotta cut them at the source.
sure, recall the ban. let the market decide.
hopefully Canadians will continue not buying american stuff, and there won't be a business case to stock it
Canadian alchys don't give a fuck. The heavy drinkers in rural areas love Trump.
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There it is, elbows down.
Expect a parade of Premiers lifting bans next week.
Doug Ford can't wait to get his special gold kneepads back on.
Restoring US alcohol to shelves is a bit premature considering we still have a potential 50% tariff over our heads.
Even without the tariff I certainly won't buy it, hell they can even mark it 50% off.
Just price it absurdly, make a bottle of Jack Daniels $2,500 and if some dumbass buys it, the store gets a good payday and the bottling company successfully sells 1 bottle.
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Seems tonedeaf.
If he actually does it, then it will be there... Taking up space.... I don't think anyone is going to buy it.
Sure, a few might, but he's going to force retailers to stock it and it's just not going to move. He's going to make them into involuntary warehouses for crap nobody wants.
- US booze has never been remarkable in the first place
- I don't feel like doing the US or the corporations therein, any favors.
Can we get a different liberal leader to be PM? Is it too late to do that? I don't hate Carney, but his decisions have made me wonder about his fitness to lead.
If he actually does it, then it will be thereβ¦ Taking up spaceβ¦ I donβt think anyone is going to buy it.
This is exactly why it isn't tone deaf. He can just issue the ask, hope that not all premiers will follow, and even the provinces that do follow, consumption will still not recover fully; he can say "hey I did all I can, Canadians just don't wanna drink it" and the US loses a negotiation leverage.
I do think a significant amount of people will buy it, though. They US booze will come out cheap and in droves. And we have a dumber third of the country that's actually a fan of the US still
BCLiquor, NSLC, LCBO, SAQ can buy one case of American liquor each, and put one bottle in a cute little locked display case at each store.
This is the way.
I'm a fan of this. Just have a little graveyard area where any US booze lives. Put it in a locked cabinet so anyone who has decided to buy it can be judged appropriately.
Whenever the cabinet is opened, it plays the US National anthem throughout the store (probably a modified version that sounds like it's been sung by a half dead cat to an out of tune piano, and in a different key to make it sound tragic). This way, everyone there can know that some one has willingly chosen to buy their crap and can look over at who they are so you can remember not to do that person any favors in the future.
Fuck everything about what the US is doing. Fuck them. Americans, I'll judge on a case by case basis, but America can get bent.
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No one wants to hear the First Lady try to sing that!
Sure restock it all in one particular location in the store with βπΊπΈπ©ποΈπΊπ·πΈβ signs and everyone should stop and stare with derision if anyone bothers to try to even browse this section much less buy from it.
Does he want Conservatives to wins?
The only reason why he got into power was because PP was such a detestable imbecile. If the Cons picked a slightly less insane Trump ass kisser he would still be in Toronto working for whatever bank he was working for.
He was going to win until Trudeau left
Only because Canada had had enough of Trudeau and he was the only choice.
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So the booze bans, if I remember right, came in as part of the response to the US imposing tariffs, tariffs they justified with a flimsy excuse of 'fentanyl!'. The US didn't like that we responded to their clearly abusive/disrespectful tariffs, by applying more tariffs. Now Carney is negotiating to lower those tariffs in part by ending what little resistance/push-back Canada had shown.
Carney's disappointing.
Still better than PP.
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The Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said the request came directly from the negotiations and was conditional on a final deal, which is a defensible way forward
Really, incredibly sick of the federal government not even managing to have as much backbone as I, some random citizen.
Honestly as long as we don't give in to the stupid military procurement crap(F35s, E7 Wedgetail, & Golden Dome) that was being floated I'm ok with the alcohol back on the shelves(alcohol is a dumb consumer good we can easily replace. Military hardware and contracts not so much). it costs us very little and can be re-implemented fast if that idiot plays dumb games. Let him strut around like some dumb peacock that got a big win while i refuse to buy it. If we can ship the oil south to keep Alberta placated with a bunch of new pipelines to busy themselves with that O&G Execs realize only get completed if the referendum fails, the referendum will get crushed and we can go back to focusing on electrification/EV's/Transit for Canada as a whole and replacing our dumbass premier's that have gotten cover from "Donny Dumbass". Hopefully with everything else going so shittily for the him, he'll be too distracted till after midterms that we can negotiate the rest of this horseshit away during CUSMA re-negotiations.
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