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Does the province have staff and a plan to check on the stores? Will there be government employess sent to test the stores alcohol sales hours? Will we be ensuring underage sales are not occuring? Do law enforcement agencies have a plan to measure the impact this may have on impaired driving?
Pfft, of course not.
You're asking if the government that couldn't be asked to build housing while asking the feds for millions of immigrants to prop up the economy is planning when there's money involved? Please, this is the same guy who:
This is palm-greasing to the small-business douchebags that vote PC, and a sop to large donors that wanted this to buttress weakening foodservice sales. It's about doin' bidness.
service ontario should be an essential service and not seen as a profitable business.
You can thank Mike Harris for that one.
Actually, if there's something that's broken in Ontario, you can almost always draw a line back to Harris about it. Drug epidemic? Harris' closing of mental health facilities. Housing? Harris downloading public housing onto cities. Environmental assessment wait times? Harris gutting the MOE. Transport? Harris' downloading again. Poor municipal road repair? You guessed it, Harris dumping provincial roads and services onto the cities then cutting their budgets.
It's tempting to blame Ford for stuff--and I'm sure the booze-in-C-stores will be a gift that keeps giving, both in terms of social costs and the FOUR BILLION DOLLARS it will cut from government revenues--but he's not done one-tenth the damage Harris did.