In a country as vast as Canada with so much grain as it has, yea Whiskey is a big part of the economy. A ton of alcoholics, and tariffs on imports to keep domestic always the cheapest option.
>>512777387
Here, read this.
so all that above said, if you were to add it all up into a single figure, what would it look like for the entire amount of the Canadian economy attributable to alcoholic drinks/liquors... and you can then add on the *pay* that all the workers take home, that they wouldnt since they would lose jobs if the industry went away
Canada’s alcohol footprint, summed into one figure
Headline number: about CAD 22 billion per year, roughly 0.8% of GDP, is attributable to alcoholic drinks (beer, wine, spirits) when you add up product taxes, retail/wholesale margins, domestic manufacturing value added, upstream Canadian suppliers, and induced effects.
The part that’s workers’ pay
Take‑home pay embedded in that footprint: about CAD 6–8 billion in wages and salaries supported across distilling/brewing/winemaking, retail distribution, farming, packaging, logistics, and other suppliers.
Important: worker pay is a component of GDP (not on top of it). So the CAD 6–8B is already inside the CAD ~22B total. If the industry vanished, that’s the order of magnitude of paycheques at risk alongside the tax and profit components.
