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Alberta businesses are split on the government’s decision to boycott British Columbia wines, with support for the cause clashing with concerns that the move went too far.

“I fail to see how the oil industry and the wine industry are equivalent rivals,” said Evan Watson, owner of the upscale cocktail bar and eatery Clementine, on Wednesday.

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“I don’t necessarily believe that food security and agricultural sovereignty … should be used as political bargaining chips.”

Premier Rachel Notley announced Tuesday that the province would no longer import B.C. wines, hitting an industry that Albertans spent $72 million on last year.

The decision was in retaliation to a B.C. government move designed to stall Kinder Morgan Inc.’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would bring oil to the West Coast from Alberta. The B.C. NDP said more spill response studies are needed and proposed a restriction on increases in bitumen shipments until research is completed.