Au Miche Cafe and Bar in the capital of British Columbia, Victoria, the owner Allan Sinclair runs specific alcohol bottles on the upper shelf to hide the labels of public view.
He collects a bottle of Jack Daniels.
“It’s Tennessee and they supported Trump, so we can’t have it,” he said.
How Trump’s prices could cost British consumers
Allan Sinclair, owner of the Miche Cafe and Bar in the capital of British Columbia, Victoria
American alcohol bottles had returned to the Canadian store
A bottle of alcohol with Wayne Gretzky cream is almost over.
“Once it’s gone, I’m going to get rid of it,” explains Allan. “He has shown that he no longer respects our country.”
Gretzky, formerly a Canadian ice hockey hero, has alienated a lot here with his unwavering support for the American president.
Allan also sells “Canadianos”, which he says, with irony, stronger than Americanos.
They are calm but considered as acts of challenge A trade war launched by the United States.
“It’s a small protest in the form of a coffee,” he says. “What we can do is hope that they don’t follow all this madness.”
Tuesday started with Donald Trump announcing a 50% rate on aluminum and steel from Canada. A few hours later, it was revised at 25%.
There is a nature of grinding, upgrading and tatta to these economic punishment.
British Prime Minister of British Columbia, David Eby repaled Trump’s prices by prohibiting the sale of alcohols manufactured by the Americans in his province.
The Miche Cafe and Bar does not sell Americanos
‘Buy the Canadian instead’
BC Liquor Store is a few steps from the Prime Minister’s office in Victoria.
On the shelves where the Kentucky Bourbon would generally be there, there are signs saying: “Buy the Canadian instead.”
Dozens of bottles of California and Oregon wine are closely wrapped in cellophane.
But the threats of the Trump administration do not end in prices.
The president has repeatedly declared that he wanted make Canada the 51st state. Referring even to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor”.
The Prime Minister of British Columbia, David Eby, talks to Sky News
Prime Minister Eby said to Sky News: “These are deeply annoying statements that the president is making, in particular in the context of clearly expansionist policies Linked to Greenland And The Panama Canal.
“What we are continuously getting about the president is to take it seriously, but not literally.
“I would love to have this kind of luxury … The danger, I think, do not take it literally and seriously.”
‘I try to buy something other than American‘
On the ferry that connects the island of Vancouver to the continent, pricing fatigue sets up.
Passenger Nancy, a government employee, says she thinks Donald Trump intends to cause chaos. “It’s a threat, he just creates chaos where he doesn’t need to be.”
His colleague Laura says that the silver lining is that the prices have galvanized the Canadians together.
Laura, a government employee, says the prices have gathered Canadians
“People feel wounded and angry,” she says. “We are trying to buy more Canadian products and travel elsewhere than the United States. I made a trip to Las Vegas and we canceled it. When I go to the grocery store, I’m looking for the Canadian maple sheet that many grocery stores have put on the shelves. I try to buy something other than American.
Richard thinks that Donald Trump’s final game is to weaken the Canadian economy.
“I think Trump had a program from the start, without a doubt. I think he wanted to cause a collapse of the Canadian economy so that it allowed him to buy more easily what they wanted, if not to make us a 51st state – that had nothing to do with fentanyl, it was only a cunning. “”
Fentanyl’s “fiction” claims of Trump
He refers to the repeated statements of the Trump administration which FentanylA devastating opioid that has ravaged parts of America and Canada, floods the Canadian border in the United States.
This is the reason, they say, for having triggered this trade war.
One of the reasons why Trump gave for the trade war was the alleged flow of fentanyl on the border
Dr. MJ Milloy, director of research at the British Columbia Center on Insporty substance, says that this is simply not true.
“There is no one who knows anything in the drug markets in North America who agree with the declaration that Canada is part of the problem in the United States. It’s a fiction.
Dr MJ Milloy, director of research at the British Columbia Center on substance use
“There is no doubt that fentanyl has devastated the United States. Fentanyl is devastating Canada. And so I think that in this way, it could be a powerful way for Trump to concoct enthusiasm and justify this attack, “he adds.
Whatever reason – invented or otherwise – for this trade war, it makes an enemy of this ally.
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