The chain’s new drinks offering shows how silly Ontario’s liquor laws are
are prohibited from selling the stuff. Those fridges are locked and marked Employee Access Only.
But nearly 40 years after a Liberal premier, David Peterson, proposed letting corner stores sell beer and wine, it’s still forbidden in Ontario. Another Liberal premier, Kathleen Wynne, missed a chance to make it happen in the 2010s. She struck a deal to let some supermarkets sell beer, for a healthy fee, but kept corner stores out of it.
The current premier, Progressive Conservative Doug Ford, recently repeated his promise to change the rules and let corner stores in, but has been hampered by the rotten Wynne deal, which expires in 2025. The government could face a fortune in penalties if it broke the agreement with the big brewing companies that control the giant retailer.
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