Trump’s escalating trade war puts pressure on premiers with U.S. booze boycotts as they gather in P.E.I.

CBC: Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said he expects the federal government to at some point ask the provinces to relent on the boycotts.

“I think it’s already been made in some cases. So that will be a decision each province will have to make,” he said Tuesday morning. “But that ask should come from the federal government, they’re at the negotiating table. They’ll know the sensitivities that may present.”

…B.C. Premier David Eby said “there is not a chance in hell that U.S. alcohol is going back on the shelf” in his province. 

“The one way to embolden a bully is to capitulate. And I don’t think we should embolden Mr. Trump, who clearly is a bully,” he said at the onset of the meetings…

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