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Originally Posted by FrostyMug
As in hard liquor? Or just beer and wine. If you mean hard liquor then maybe a bit more in rural areas but even Quebec has hard liquor only in the SAQ so it's not easily available in every other province. Keep in mind that the LCBO is a huge cash cow for the people of Ontario. I think he's more after beer and wine and it would still be regulated to some extent. The current process for rural areas put into place by the Ford government is totally flawed as well. Imagine making the investment into your business to provide coolers and space for beer/wine and liquor only to be told after 5 years when your contract is up that the place up the road is getting the contract and you're out of luck (and a lot of money). It's not a cash cow, it takes a ton of space, theft is a huge problem as are drunks and minors.
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Here in Phoenix, there are no restrictions whatsoever on the sale of any type of alcohol. My local Safeway has a large beer, wine and liquor selection, and at my local gas station I could buy a can of beer or 40ml bottle of Vodka if I wanted.
Depending on where I go, prices can be as little as 1/3 of what I would pay in Ottawa.
Drunks, theft and/or minors does not seem to be an issue at all... well probably no worse than Ontario.
Bottom line... a 100% free market for booze does NOT have any adverse effect on the community, and prices do NOT skyrocket because stock has to be delivered to more locations.
It's just silly that so much time, effort and money goes into trying to "control" booze in Ontario. Practical experience here shows that ALL that effort is a wasted bureaucracy.
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