Ontario Premier Ford threatens to pull Diageo’s Crown Royal whisky
Canada | American Bourbon has already become a victim in the US trade war. Provinces pulled it from their shelves in response to Mr Trump’s tariffs. Now it looks as if Canadian whisky Crown Royal could become a victim too, if Ontario’s provincial premier Doug Ford has his way. He said on 7 January that Crown Royal would be boycotted by the province-owned liquor chain LCBO in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, firing a warning shot at Diageo, the brand’s owner.
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