The Ford government has decided to cancel a security check pilot program at some liquor stores in Ontario, just days after it was announced. Ontario families are already facing financial difficulties, and the government wants to avoid imposing additional expenses on them.
RELATED - The Ford government has killed a controversial security check pilot planned to run at some liquor stores in Ontario just days after it was announced – Feb 15, 2024“At a time when many Ontario families are already struggling to make ends meet, every additional expense counts,” Ford said in a letter dated April 7 to LCBO’s president and CEO.
“That includes charging customers for reusable bags instead of the free paper bags that the LCBO previously offered.”The company said the move would would save the equivalent of 188,000 trees each year and divert 2,665 tonnes of waste from landfills. However, in Ford’s letter he wrote that the change has “left people stuck openly carrying alcohol in public when leaving a LCBO store.”“People rightly expect their government — and, by extension, crown corporations such as the LCBO — to be mindful of these costs and refrain from imposing additional and unnecessary burdens on them,” Ford wrote.
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