Manitoba whisky? Pour it on the ground! German-Californian trains? Full steam ahead!

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Sometimes I wonder if Doug Ford and his quite accomplished team of political advisers are on a mission to discover the extent to which Ontarians will tolerate their province being run purely according to the inscrutable whims of their premier. Last week was one of those times. As is often the case with Ford — who doesn’t drink — alcohol was involved.

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Manitoba Progressive Conservative MLA Derek Johnson represents the riding of Interlake—Gimli, where global liquor colossus Diageo makes Crown Royal whisky from the finest grains of the Canadian Prairies. Ford doesn’t like Diageo because it intends to move bottling for the American market from southwestern Ontario to the United States. At a toe-curling press conference in September, Ford poured a bottle of Crown Royal onto the ground to emphasize his displeasure, and threatened to yank the whisky from Ontario’s........

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