About the CCDA

The national alliance came into existence after years of dedicated hard work by a committed group of craft distillers and regional distillery associations from across the country, but ultimately only occurred due to the overwhelming support of the nation’s almost 300 domestic distilleries. 

The Alliance was born out of a desire to unite all of Canada’s Craft Distillers, so that they can more effectively lobby government as a strong, united, singular voice to achieve changes with the archaic Canadian Liquor laws, and specifically with the Federal level Excise taxation model.  In effect, it was through working together on two successive National Excise Parity Campaigns, that the Canadian Distilling scene was catalyzed, and the National Alliance was born.  .

The initial goal for the CCDA is to work towards excise parity for the Canadian Craft industry, but we foresee many more accomplishments and collaborations in our future, as we are all stronger together.