🇨🇦 One tariff threat, and Ottawa’s fake free trade fantasy cracks

A 50 per cent U.S. tariff threat on Canadian alcohol, and suddenly Alberta businesses are told to pivot, pause expansion, and pray for diplomacy. That is the genius of Canada’s ruling class: sign away leverage, keep interprovincial barriers for decades, then act shocked when Washington treats us like a branch plant. As reported, Strathcona Spirits froze plans for Florida and Washington, while Alberta retailers sit on dusty U.S. wine nobody wants.

The real joke is that nine premiers are only now cobbling together direct-to-consumer alcohol sales inside Canada, as if internal trade in one country were some moon landing. Danielle Smith talks about intense negotiations, but the larger lesson is simpler: a country that cannot move its own products freely coast to coast will always be vulnerable abroad. Ottawa spent years worshipping managed dependence, globalist supply chains, and rule-by-bureaucrat. Now Alberta producers are left absorbing the bill for that stupidity while the political class recites diplomacy like a bedtime story.

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