Alabama Republican voters and politicians meanwhile:

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    Why don’t you write a DM to your president about reconsidering his trade war?

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      A Democratic U.S. Senator has taken to social media to urge Canada to reconsider its boycott on American alcohol, specifically wine from California.

      In a post on X, California Senator Adam Schiff

      I really wish we had an opposition party

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        Schiff should be campaigning to influence the people that started the trade war and continue to threaten the USA’s traditional allies and trade partners. Those people are in the US Government, not in Canada.

        And Meredith Lilly sounds like a traitor, who is also pressuring Canada to back down and make life easier for Trump.

        Meredith Lilly, who worked as an advisor to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, believes the provinces are “overstepping their jurisdiction” with the ban.

        The Carleton University professor and Simon Reisman Chair in International Economic Policy says she expects there are a number of conversations happening behind the scenes and hopes the federal government is pushing to get booze back on the shelves, and that provinces are listening.

        “International trade negotiations are a federal responsibility, not a provincial responsibility, and so it’s my view that the provincial premiers should be working collaboratively with Ottawa and taking signals from Ottawa about what would be the best approach,” she told CTV News.

        She says the trade irritant has “become quite a personal issue” for American officials on the file, including United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

        “It seems like this is one of the measures that could be taken quite easily to move the conversation forward in a more constructive way,” Lilly said.