Federal Conservative MPs are slamming Ontario Premier Doug Ford for doubling down on his pledge to remove Crown Royal products from provincial liquor stores.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Ford said his government was doing “everything we can to protect jobs” in Ontario by removing the popular whisky from the shelves at the LCBO, and encouraged Ontarians to purchase rival brands produced and bottled in Canada.
Crown Royal whisky is mashed, distilled and aged in Gimli, Manitoba, but its parent company, Diageo, announced earlier this year it was shuttering one of its bottling facilities in Amherstburg, a town located south of Windsor.