Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced that his province will be imposing 50 percent tariffs on U.S. alcohol to match Washington’s alcohol tariffs, but said the province is still not considering removing American booze from store shelves.
Moe said during an Aug. 26 press conference that while many had been asking if Saskatchewan would be making changes to its sales of U.S. alcohol, the government had decided “we want to leave the choice with the people of Saskatchewan.”
“That is a very important core value for this government … and we believe that that ability to not have government in your life to the degree possible is a very core value of the families that live here,” he said….