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Today Randy Hillier, candidate for PC Ontario leader, announced that he would allow competition to Beer Store.
Hillier proposes to allow corner stores to be able to sell wine and beer. As well restaurants, bars and hotels would be able to sell off-sales to further help their businesses.
This should be a no brainier for anyone who believes in individual choice and the free market. Such a policy would be an enormous boost to a multitude of small businesses and the entertainment industry as a whole.
The Beer Store is an insane institution. It is a government mandated monopoly on the sale of one of the most popular beverages in the country. Because of this Ontarians have suffered from inflated prices, poor service, and limited selection.
Ever wonder why the good beer is always hidden in the back of the Beer Store? If a microbrewery wants to sell its product in Ontario, they have to pay their competitors for the privilege of doing so. The Beer Store, owned by Molson Coors, InBev, and Sleeman, then gives preferential treatment to their own products. Ontarians thus fall victim to the conniving of an unchallenged control over the beer industry.
It is way past time for this insanely stupid status quo to be broken.
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Good for Randy but wasn't this also part of the platform in the last election?
Cool Blue, it was proposed as a half measure in the last election. I believe it was only allowing Ontario beer in corner stores. Tory did seem to back away from this before the election date though.
Hopefully all 4 candidates can support this common sense policy.
This might seem a tad superficial but on that issue alone he'll get my vote if it ever comes down to it.
I'm an ex-Quebecer and I still resent having to travel to one of three Beer Stores here in Niagara Falls, a city of 80,000.
NeilD
Someone at another site used the example of selling tobacco in corner stores as a precedent of why this should work.
Right wing red-neck guns 'n liquor nonsense!
On the contrary, we must do more to save people from their potential irresponsibility!
First, we should go back to the days of not making beer, wine or spirits visible when buying them. Mother Dalton recently did this by forcing retailers to hide cigarettes behind closed cupboards.
Second, we should ban tobacco sales in all privately owned stores and create a Tobacco Control Board of Ontario modeled after the expensive LCBO monopoly.
Beer in corner stores? Are you crazy, or do you live in uber left-wing Quebec where even they have apparently been brainwashed into permitting the sale of beer and wine in corner stores?
Beer, wine and liqour are already sold in Ont. corner stores and have been for over 25 years. There are something like 300 LCBO agency
outlets in rural Ont, selling anything listed by LCBO. Here in Ottawa there are at least 8 outlets in the rural areas. I don't expect D. McGuinty to be aware of ths, he only lives here, but Hillier should know this. There are such stores in Lanark Co.
I never visit the Beer Store, unless I am absolutely forced to.
Martin said...
"Beer, wine and liqour are already sold in Ont. corner stores and have been for over 25 years.Shocking anarchy!
They should be banned, just like Dalton did for residential herbicides and pesticides (but not golf courses.)
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