The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party has “Protect Ontario” as one of its electoral slogans for the upcoming 27February2025 provincial election.
Premier Doug Ford, as his fellow premiers of Canada, has focused on the low hanging and visible fruit of American alcohol particularly bourbon, as a punitive target but has waited to remove all American alcohol off the shelves of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario shelves and in third party retail outlets selling American wine and beer until the tariff situation is resolved.
Yet today a check at an LCBO store has revealed just how hard the LCBO is “depromoting” American bourbon.
Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner"
Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto.
Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."
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