B.C. business community responds to Trump tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’ll hit Canada with 25 per cent tariffs on goods making their way south of the border beginning Tuesday.

Here’s the response from B.C.’s business leaders:

Premier David Eby

“President Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs are a complete betrayal of the historic bond between our countries and a declaration of economic war against a trusted ally…

“We won’t back down or be bullied into becoming another state.”

He says the province is enacting the following measures:

Directing the BC Liquor Distribution Branch to immediately stop buying American liquor from “red states”, and remove the top-selling “red-state” brands from the shelves of public liquor

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