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Originally Posted by HighwayStar
From what I understand, Ms Wynne signed a 10 year deal with the 3 multinational breweries to allow this "token" amount of sales.
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Yes, these deals are valid for 10 years. It's been hinted that after that comes a much broader deregulation to a level similar to Quebec. The 450 alcohol permits that were auctioned off to supermarkets also have a 10 year validity, for example (thus avoiding concerns about possible ISDS lawsuits if the government wants to sell more than 450).
Wynne probably won't be premier in 10 years (even if the Liberals get continuously re-elected, Wynne will probably have retired), so it would be up to a future government to make that call in 2025.
With this reform helping to normalize Ontarians to the idea of beer sales in supermarkets it may finally be politically acceptable to make that final death blow to the TBS system in 2025. It's up to us as citizens to start thinking about it and holding the government's feet to the fire starting in the early 2020s as the deadline looms.
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Originally Posted by HighwayStar
The big 3 (Multinationals.. not even Canadian) will profit for a decade. This has nothing whatsoever to do with a "nanny state", and everything to do with government selling its soul to the highest bidder.
It's madness... and so very, very sad that this is how politics operates.
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Well yes. The original point of this all is to raise money for infrastructure projects that comes from somewhere other than taxes and general revenues. In this case, it also goes to furthering consumer interests.
Even this is huge for Ontario, a place that has always been massively aversive to alcohol. I'll celebrate it for now with an eye for further reforms in the future.
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