{"id":1993527,"date":"2025-09-02T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1993527"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:07:13","slug":"ford-dumps-crown-royal-bottle-in-protest-of-plant-closure-theyre-hurting-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ford-dumps-crown-royal-bottle-in-protest-of-plant-closure-theyre-hurting-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford dumps Crown Royal bottle in protest of plant closure: \u2018They\u2019re hurting Ontario\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford<\/a> dumped out a bottle of Crown Royal<\/a> Tuesday in protest of the whisky maker\u2019s decision to shutter its bottling facility in the province.<\/p>\n

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Ford called out Diageo over the shuttering of its Amherstburg, Ont., plant; Diageo said last week it was shifting some operations to the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0to improve its North American supply chain.<\/p>\n

Bottling at the Amherstburg facility intended for the U.S. market would be shifting stateside, while bottling for Canadian consumers would move to its Valleyfield, Que., location.<\/p>\n

The Ontario facility will close in February 2026, forcing almost 200 people to lose their jobs.<\/p>\n

At an unrelated press conference on Tuesday, Ford was asked about the move, which he described as \u201churting Ontario residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re hurting the people that work at Crown Royal,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, you know something? A message to the CEO in France: You hurt my people. I\u2019m going to hurt you. You\u2019re going to feel the pain in February when these people don\u2019t have a paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ford then proceeded to grab a bottle of Crown Royal, that he said he found at home, opened it and poured the whisky out onto the ground, leaning over the podium he was speaking at.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is what I think about Crown Royal. That\u2019s what they could do. But I think everyone else should do the same thing,\u201d he said, as the whisky slowly flowed out of the bottle.<\/p>\n

Ford then stepped in front of the podium saying, \u201cI wish I could get this coming out quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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