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Worth taking a look at.

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I hope everybody takes the time to sign this. Do the politicians and the people behind them honestly think we are stupid enough to believe crap like this:

Mr. Speaker, this bill adds another procedural option, namely the possibility of a civil injunction, in the event that there is an anticipated or continuing violation of the Liquor Control Act or the regulations. It is a procedural change, not a substantive change. In other words, anything that was legal before is still legal and anything that was illegal before is still illegal.

Horseshit. Insert Graham Steele and Ross Landry's dirtbag faces below.

If my read on this is correct, we're basically setting up a situation where a crown corp is both a regulator and a competitor of local businesses, and is being given special preference in terms of acting on complaints from larger businesses that both compete with the small guys AND are landlords for many of the crown corps locations. Whether or not "anything that was legal before is still legal and anything that was illegal before is still illegal", it's the conflicts in the process that are the problem.

BobbyOK wrote:If my read on this is correct, we're basically setting up a situation where a crown corp is both a regulator and a competitor of local businesses, and is being given special preference in terms of acting on complaints from larger businesses that both compete with the small guys AND are landlords for many of the crown corps locations. Whether or not "anything that was legal before is still legal and anything that was illegal before is still illegal", it's the conflicts in the process that are the problem.

Exactly. Are they the regulator or the retailer of alcohol in this province? I firmly believe that if the provinces insist on retailing liquor themselves the retailer and the regulator should be entirely separate entities. Basically what I'm saying in regard to this is that Alcohol & Gaming should be in charge of enforcing the liquor control act, even at U-Vint stores and the like and the NSLC should concern themselves expressly with retailing booze prepared by commercial entities.

To me, it is also a shady end around where we now have created 'agents of the government' who will most likely have to answer to nobody but themselves for their actions. Very, very bad idea...I would dearly love to know the architects of this black hole.