Another attempt to lead the litigation on the wine in British Columbia

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Wednesday, 21 February, 2018 23:54

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After the government of british columbia, it is the turn of the wine Institute of British Columbia to oppose the boycott decreed by the province of Alberta, in announcing the filing of an injunction on Wednesday.

In a statement, the Institute indicated that it will file an injunction challenging the constitutionality of the boycott imposed by the first minister in alberta, Rachel Notley. The latter has decided to ban the importation of bottles from the neighbouring province as a measure of retaliation against the government of british columbia,

“The institute regrets having to resort to legal proceedings to protect our industry and our families. We need to end this prohibition of the wines of British Columbia”, expressed the president of the organization, Miles Prodan, in a press release.

According to the Institute, the wine industry of the province’s 276 vineyards and 923 producers of grapes, which generates 12,000 jobs. Alberta imported $ 70 million in wine columbian 2017, which represents one-fifth of the exports of wine of the province of the West.

Earlier this week, the government of British Columbia also opposed the boycott, announcing that it would use the mechanism of regulation of commercial disputes set forth in the Agreement of free trade in canada.

For its part, the alberta government has paid for commercials Wednesday in the journals of British Columbia to address the decision of the administration of John Horgan to block the pipeline project Trans Mountain.

The minister of Commerce alberta, Deron Bilous, has for its part suggested that the inability to export more oil is more harmful to the alberta economy that the boycott of the wine. He also said that his government would defend its action until that British Columbia will not allow Kinder Morgan to move forward with its pipeline project.