stores across the province in smaller communities through the LCBO’s agency store program and has successfully done so for many years. These Ontario residents (and cottagers) are used to having their choice of beverage alcohol available on grocery store shelves without the artificial restriction of government policy. “Some will say this is justified because
spirits are somehow different from beer and wine. However, the facts show this is not the case. “In response to the very specific question
as to whether or not beer or wine is safer to drink than the pejoratively described “hard liquor,” the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s answer is categorical: ‘No. One 12-ounce beer has about the same amount of alcohol as one 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5-ounce shot of liquor. It is the amount of alcohol consumed that affects a person most,
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from grain grown in Essex, Lambton and Kent counties, is sold to the LCBO for $6.35. Ontarians pay $27.25 for that same bottle at the LCBO and, of the $20.90 increase, $16.14 (77 per cent) goes to the LCBO and the provincial government. “Of the $1.7 billion directly
transferred to the Ontario treasury by the LCBO each year, nearly 60 per cent comes from the sale of spirits. “The exclusion of spirits is also
puzzling given that Ontario already sells beer, wine and spirits in grocery
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