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According to the 2026 budget, Ontario will spend $200 million to reduce the markup for products at the LCBO, alongside reducing taxes for local producers.

On March 4, 2025, in response to the first round of tariffs levied by U.S. President Donald Trump, the premier banned American booze from the LCBO.

Premier Doug Ford backed down from his threat to remove Crown Royal from the shelves of the LCBO after the government said it reached a $23 million agreement with the company.

The ban was introduced last year after U.S. tariffs were first imposed on Canadian imports, leading Doug Ford to tell the LCBO to remove American alcohol from the LCBO.

Sixty-nine per cent of those surveyed agreed Ford should use his power over the LCBO to pressure companies to keep jobs in the province.

On Wednesday, Ford said he was offering the company Diageo an 'olive branch' to present the government with a plan to replace the 160 jobs in Amherstburg.

'You are going hurt Canadian jobs, you are going to hurt Manitoba jobs if you follow through with this,' Kinew told Ford during multiple phone calls in January.

Doug Ford confirmed he would pull the Canadian whiskey from the shelves of the province's alcohol stores next month to punish international drinks conglomerate Diageo.

The premier has repeated the threat for months, saying he will use the province's monopoly on alcohol sales to punish international drinks manufacturer Diageo.

Mayor Michael Prue said Diageo appeared to lose steam in its attempts to quickly sell a facility in his town as soon as Doug Ford stood down his threat to ban Crown Royal.

The new deal flows from a broader framework agreed to by several provinces last year to try to reduce or do away with internal Canadian trade barriers altogether.

The province is in the process of overhauling how freedom of information works in Ontario to retroactively exempt all calls and texts from the premier and others.

Plans to close the facility in Amherstburg, Ont., were first announced in the summer by Diageo, the international drinks maker behind the Canadian whisky.

A ruling from America's top court concluded Donald Trump's so-called 'reciprocal' tariffs and duties on Canada related to fentanyl were unlawful.

The government says the agreement with Diageo is worth $23 million, but it does not appear to directly save any Ontario jobs related to the whisky.

The night before it announced an Ontario bottling facility would close, representatives from Diageo got in touch with Doug Ford's office. At first, the conversation was cordial.

Durham police arrested more than 60 people in a five-week crackdown on retail theft. Nearly three dozen of the charges stem from incidents at the LCBO.

Ford threatened to remove the Canadian whisky from provincial liquor stores last summer after Diageo announced it would close a bottling plant in southwestern Ontario.

In a December memo the LCBO told employees that its current floor space at 100 Queen's Quay E. 'does not support full-time office work for all head office employees.'

Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers painted a very different picture at closing submissions of Shardanae Cousins-Emily's second-degree murder trial.