A recent decision by a trade panel on the Alberta government’s beer rebate for small brewers in that province says it’s unfair and hurts brewers in other provinces and is contrary to free trade obligations.
The decision was originally made last year and then was appealed by the Alberta government, but that decision has been upheld.
Trade and Export Development Minister, Jeremy Harrison, is pleased, saying it confirms that Alberta’s rebates unfairly discriminated against Saskatchewan and Canadian brewers.
He is calling on Alberta to comply with the ruling, ensuring that brewers from out of province can compete fairly.
Alberta Beer Rebate Discriminates Against Out-Of-Province Brewers
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”