In response to tariffs and annexation threats of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, the alcohol of the neighbor of Southern Canada is now something of the past in the liquor stores administered by the BC government.
On Monday, the BC Prime Minister David Eby announced that the BC Liquor Distribution Branch had stopped buying American beer, wine and liquor and has eliminated the existing stocks of its shelves.
“We are doing this for a couple of reasons,” Eby said of a store in the neighborhood of James Bay in Victoria on Monday.
“One is to respond to the growing threats we are seeing from the United States. The other is to recognize the feeling that many British Colombians have now when we look at US products. We don’t even want to see them on the shelf.”
The Opera Branch 198 Liquor stores throughout the province and serves more than 36 million retail customers per year, according to the BC Liquor website.
Last week, the province eliminated the American alcohol that originated in the so -called red states, which voted for the Trump Republican Party, from the store shelves.
‘Keep your aqueous beer’
Eby said that an escalation was required with Trump’s threats to the BC dairy products and wood industries and the “reflections” on the border, water resources and the sovereignty of Canada.
“Now the reaction of many British Colombians, including myself, is whether the president so interested in Canadian water, we will help him to keep his watery beer.”
The BC liquor distribution branch confirmed to CBC News that the prohibition only involves liquor products made in the United States that are manufactured in the US. UU. And Canada is imported.
“This does not have an impact on US brands manufactured in BC or Canada,” he said in a statement that refers to Budweiser and Coors Light as US brands produced by Canadian breweries Labatt and Molson, respectively.
Integrated supply chains problem
In the United States, the Association of Cerveceros represents 5,500 small or independent artisanal brewers, which provide 75,000 beer hectoliters to Canada every year. It is your number one export market.
President and CEO Bart Watson says that the BC prohibition could end up harming Canadian businesses, since producers in the United States trust Canadian materials to manufacture their products.
“Not being able to sell is challenging,” he said about the ban. “In addition, many of those beers are being made with Canadian barley, Canadian Malta. We have a very integrated supply chain in North America.”
Eby acknowledged that the measure can be disappointing for some consumers and encouraged them to try BC and Canadian products such as replacements. He also doubled his directive to starve to the United States of tourist dollars.
He recently canceled a family trip from Disneyland with his own family.
“There are many sacrifices that my family has to do due to the work I do, and I am very grateful for it, and it was not the easiest conversation,” he said. “But we are not going to an American theme park in the predictable future.”
The province said it hopes to promulgate legislation in a matter of days that allow it to impose rates against commercial trucks that travel from the state of Washington to Alaska.
Eby also said that his government was working with Ottawa on possible tariffs or an absolute prohibition of American thermal coal that is transported through British Columbia.
