🇨🇦 Canada’s premiers are playing liquor-store war while Ottawa begs for trade mercy

Trump hikes tariffs to 50 per cent, and the provincial brain trust responds by yanking bourbon off shelves and calling it strategy. That is the level of statecraft on display in Charlottetown. David Eby says there is not a chance in hell U.S. alcohol returns to B.C., while Mark Carney quietly admits any reversal should happen only as part of a broader deal, as reported. Translation: Ottawa does not control the country it claims to govern, and the provinces are freelancing economic retaliation through liquor boards.

This is what post-Trudeau Canada looks like: fragmented, performative, and weak. Nine provinces boycott U.S. booze, Alberta and Saskatchewan refuse the cosplay, and everyone pretends this is hard-nosed diplomacy instead of retail theatrics. The same political class that surrendered our manufacturing base, flooded the country with cheap labour, and tied us to every globalist fad now wants applause for rearranging whisky shelves. Sovereignty is not a photo-op with premiers in P.E.I. It is national leverage, industrial capacity, and a government that does not confuse consumer tantrums with strategy.

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