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Crown Royal dust-up a story of tariffs and tempers
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Winnipeg Free Press
Opinion“We’re a big family,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared on Monday.
to grab a few slices to fuel their continuing lunchtime conversation, the Ontario leader’s tone had moderated considerably.
As folks hereabouts no doubt recall, Ford has made quite a show of his upset over plans by Diageo, the U.K.-based multinational beverage company that owns the Crown Royal Canadian whisky brand, to close a bottling plant in Amherstburg, Ont.
and, some fear, eventually relocate those 160 jobs to a new plant in Alabama (the company has stated Crown Royal for Canadian and non-U.S. export markets will continue to be produced in Canada).
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