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Obviously, Alberta never had a particular beef with B.C. wine. Unfortunately, the industry became collateral damage of sorts in a political war between the Alberta and B.C. governments.

Had B.C. not threatened to cause problems for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Alberta would have had nothing to retaliate against in the first place. And the tit-for-tat approach of showing B.C. the effect of causing grief for one of their key industries was not exactly unpopular.

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For now, it would appear, one or both sides have blinked, and the B.C. wine ban has been dropped. That’s a relief to the B.C. Wine Institute, which was set to go to court in Calgary to try and get the ban overturned. The industry group says the ban had a “severe impact” on wineries, with the potential of $4 million in losses by the end of this month had the policy persisted.

The B.C. government, meanwhile, had planned to file a complaint under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.