Time to level the playing field for Canadian wine growers

Over the next two years more than 700 Canadian wineries will have a longstanding excise benefit repealed in response to an Australian World Trade Organization challenge.

Marie-Claude Bibeau is Canada's agriculture minister. Canadian wine growers say they need help, after the government dropped their tax benefit in response to an international challenge. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAN PASZKOWSKI

August 24, 2020

In a year plagued by COVID-19, Canadian grape growers, wineries, and businesses in the hospitality, tourism and retail sectors, like their counterparts around the world, have been working with governments to address the overwhelming impacts of the pandemic.

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