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Canadian provinces pulling US alcohol off store shelves in response to Trump trade policy is “worse than tariffs”, the boss of Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman has said.

Several Canadian provinces, including Ontario, which is by far the most populated, took action this week in retaliation for US tariffs on Canadian goods.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), one of the largest buyers of alcohol in the world, removed US-made alcoholic drinks from its shelves on Tuesday.

Canadians overwhelmingly support retaliatory measures against Donald Trump’s tariffs and most think “negatively” about the U.S. president, a new poll suggests.

The Pollara Strategic Insights survey, conducted before Trump’s levies took effect Tuesday, found only 14 per cent feel positively about him while 76 per cent have negative feelings with the rest undecided.

There is an air of desperation to these Star pieces.

Donald Trump has temporarily spared carmakers from sweeping US tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, one day after an economic strike on the US’s two biggest trading partners sparked warnings of widespread price increases and disruption.

The US president extended his aggressive trade strategy at midnight on Tuesday by targeting the country’s two closest neighbors with duties of 25%.

US retail giants predicted that prices were “highly likely” to start rising on store shelves almost immediately, raising questions about Trump’s promises to “make America affordable again” after years of heightened inflation.

“We are going to give a one month exemption on any autos coming through USMCA,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referring to the trade deal Trump negotiated with Canada and Mexico in his first term https://t.co/F2HuWeUQsN pic.twitter.com/qwaL8FfGnF

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Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China are now in effect after these countries failed to adequately stem the flow of illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl in the United States despite President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to give them time to act. Never mind that Trump is the first president in decades to care about American safety and sovereignty because the same voices who stayed silent when the Biden administration’s inflation devastated Americans are now claiming tariffs will drive up costs and therefore Trump shouldn’t implement them.

But Americans should not be gaslit into having to choose between our sovereignty or low prices.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s imbecilic and unnecessary suggestion that Canada should become the 51st state has led some of my own family members — on my wife’s side, who are Canadian — not to travel to the United States, even in the midst of winter. Now this is personal.

The dislike that some Canadians feel toward Trump, and America in general, is something I experienced at a wedding of one of my wife’s cousins, shortly after Trump’s first term. At what should have been a non-political event, one of the speakers attacked the United States with such vehemence, it made me want to leave the room — and I’m no Trump supporter.

More than two-thirds of Canadian businesses say they can survive a trade war with the United States that lasts longer than one year, according to a new survey of business owners.

While 67 percent of the business leaders surveyed by KPMG said they could withstand a 12-month trade conflict, 30 percent said they would also face “significant profit losses” if the tariff war lasted longer than that and 3 percent said their companies would go out of business in this scenario.

The trade war between us and the Americans is no longer just academic. It’s real, and Canada is at the center of one. In response to escalating tariffs from the United States, Canada has chosen to retaliate. While standing up to protectionist policies is necessary, the federal government’s approach could ultimately harm Canadian consumers far more than it impacts American interests.