The Canadian brewers who owned the company - Molson, Labatt and Sleeman - have all been foreign owned, at minimum, for nearly a decade. The Beer Store is a utilitarian retail experience at best it is beloved by no one - no mean feat considering what it sells. But it could always have used a little more. So why now? Sure, Queen’s Park is particularly strapped for cash nowadays. (Ironically, the LCBO is a far superior destination for lovers of craft beer.) Because it’s owned by the big breweries, which obviously would prefer to sell their own beer, it has always been comparatively onerous and expensive for smaller breweries to list their products at The Beer Store. “My entrée into this was actually through discussions with the craft brewers - that was when the issue really landed on my table.”Īgain: Not a new issue.
“For me, this is not about doing it because of what Ed Clark’s doing,” Ms. What have the Liberals been doing putting up with it ever since? Did it really take the penetrating insight of former TD Bank chair Ed Clark and his panel on provincial asset-management to suggest the LCBO should be selling more than six-packs of beer, and that the government ought to be leaning on The Beer Store for more money or franchise fees? And it is hardly new: It was struck nearly 15 years ago - under duress from the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris, former LCBO CEO Andy Brandt recently told the Toronto Star. The problem is, while we now have the full text of the sweetheart deal before us, its terms were never any secret to shoppers. Wynne told The Canadian Press this week - a statement that crumbles into dust upon parsing, but which by the standards of Ontario’s sclerotic liquor control system counts as a bona fide threat. Wynne, times are changing! “I want us to take some steps to make it clear that this is something that needs to change,” Ms. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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