![]() Goldsbie: The Globe’s Adam Radwanski once tweeted about the LCBO that, “in practice, it’s somewhat defensible. It’s insulting the the government thinks I can’t be trusted to control my own drinking, but I somehow find it even more insulting that they think that putting all the booze in a building on the other side of the parking lot is somehow “socially responsible.” Now, let’s put on our imagining caps for a minute, guys, and picture how cool it would be if I could buy my beer and wine at that very same grocery store, instead of 300 metres away, from a different building. Right now, the grocery store my wife and I frequent is conveniently co-located in a plaza that also contains an LCBO and a Beer Store. It’s just very important that the status quo be preserved, because just imagine if … well, I actually can’t really see a problem. To be clear, it doesn’t ever hesitate to sell it to me, nor does the private-sector Beer Store, in any quantity that I may desire. ![]() My government believes it has a social responsibility to protect me from myself by directly controlling how much alcohol it sells me. My consumption of beer and any other alcohol is way, way down 2. But I’m a responsible adult now, with a job and a kid, which means two things: 1. Not what I miss most about student life, but it makes the list, believe me. Gurney: When I was going to school in Waterloo, I was a reasonable drive from the Sleeman Brewery in Guelph. The Beer Store having recently renewed hostilities with the Ontario Convenience Stores Association with a highly dubious study about the perils of retail liberalization, I hereby open the floor: Assuming (please say yes) you consider the liquor retail status quo insupportably bizarre and inconvenient, how would you like to see it changed? Distroscale border if you live near enough, or at a rural convenience store authorized by the LCBO to sell booze even though Kathleen Wynne thinks it’s dangerous to allow convenience stores to sell booze, but certainly not at an LCBO or Beer Store in Toronto, because, again, that would be ridiculous. Well, you can buy booze to take home: At a Wine Rack or a brew pub, or over the Manitoba or Quebec or U.S. On McGuinty Day, you cannot buy booze to take home, because that would be ridiculous. Where was I going with this? Oh, right, booze. It’s the holiday Premier Dad offered us in the middle of an election campaign, having kiboshed a private member’s bill to the same effect some months earlier, thus proving how easily bought we really are and how utterly ridiculous McGuinty’s good-governance-gee-shucks-earnest act really was. Selley: I write these words on Dalton McGuinty Day - Family Day as the rest of y’all call it. ![]()
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