Premier Wab Kinew says whisky drinkers must remember that Crown Royal is made in Canada.

“Crown Royal employs a ton of people in Gimli, Manitoba,” Kinew said Wednesday as he pushed back against Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who poured out a bottle at a news conference after the company announced it will close a bottling plant in his province.

In Ontario Tuesday, Ford issued a vague warning to the company, Diageo, which plans to shutter its facility in Amherstburg, Ont., next year, putting 200 people out of work. It will shift some of its bottling volume to the United States.

“You hurt my people, I’m going to hurt you,” Ford said, without specifying any actions.

Kinew called the whisky distilled in Manitoba “the pride of Gimli” and a product “that Canadians should support.”

“If you buy Cr

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