🇨🇦 Ontario wine shop owner flies to Australia to legally buy BC wine because interprovincial barriers make it easier than ordering domestic

Robbie Raskin had to book a flight to Sydney to purchase Vancouver Island vermouth because shipping it to Ontario would risk the producer being blacklisted by the LCBO. He declared it at customs on return — the only legal route. Meanwhile his local LCBO stocks three BC wines total while virtue-signaling about buying Canadian during the trade war. The LCBO treats BC producers worse than foreign imports, forcing everything through their cartel warehouse with mandatory markups.

Thirteen fiefdoms pretending to be a country. We ban American products to look patriotic while provincially-run monopolies strangle our own producers with Soviet-grade red tape. No wonder Trump smells weakness — we can't even create a domestic market for wine without needing a passport and customs forms.

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