{"id":89369,"date":"2025-08-22T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89369\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:57:10","slug":"quebec-will-donate-rather-than-destroy-expiring-u-s-alcohol-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89369\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec will donate rather than destroy expiring U.S. alcohol, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s finance minister says $300,000 of expiring American alcohol that is banned from the province&#8217;s shelves will be donated rather than destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Eric Girard&#8217;s comments come after the liquor board earlier this week said it might have to destroy some products that are set to expire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Girard says on social media he asked the board to offer the products to foundations, charity events, and to hospitality training schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The provincial government on March 4 ordered the state-owned corporation to empty shelves of U.S. alcohol in response to tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Girard says the government was prepared to lose money with its boycott, on storage costs and as products expire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">But he says the ban has boosted the sale of Quebec products by between 30 to 60 per cent, depending on the type of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s finance minister says $300,000 of expiring American alcohol that is banned from the province&#8217;s shelves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,52883,52879,52880,906,52881,52882],"class_list":{"0":"post-89369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-empty-shelves","12":"tag-eric-girard","13":"tag-finance-minister","14":"tag-quebec","15":"tag-quebec-products","16":"tag-type-of-alcohol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}