Following the election of 1917 the federal government introduced national prohibition by an Order in Council that became effective on April 1, 1918. It prohibited the importation of alcohol of more than 2.5 percent into Canada, the inter-provincial trade of alcohol, and included a ban on production.
Because all one point in our history, Britain took the US over so he might be afraid of that happening again and they weren’t very sorry the last time. We finally got our independence so we need to stay away from them lol