Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will pull Crown Royal off the shelves of the province's liquor stores should Diageo, the global company that produces the iconic Canadian whisky, go through with its plan to shutter a nearly 100-year old bottling plant in Amherstburg, Ont.

In a spirited speech Saturday, Ford told a union rally that he would fight like never before for the roughly 200 employees at the southwestern Ontario facility who are set to lose their jobs.

"A message to all the bigwigs at Diageo: I swear to God, those bottles of Crown Royal are coming off the LCBO shelves," Ford told a cheering crowd in Brampton, Ont.

"When the last person walks out through that door, we're going to make sure LCBO takes off their brands because we need to stick together," he said.

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