Politics and Beer

[canuck]

You guys in NS are further ahead of us here in NB........at least you have private stores like Premier!

[S-04]

We should elect a Brewnoser to the Premier's office to straighten things out. If anyone decides to run, for any party, they'll have my vote!

[berley]

You guys in NS are further ahead of us here in NB........at least you have private stores like Premier!

Hear, hear!

[akr71]

Agreed. I'm looking forward to a provincial government that recognizes that the province extends a little further up the Trans-Canada than Truro.

However, even though he represents Cumberland South, He was born in Truro...

hope those 1500 employees can find work...

No one is closing NSLC stores. I don't think there is any plan to allow corner stores to sell liquor, just beer and wine. Even so, the larger store in Amherst is run and stocked fairly well (for the NSLC) and all the beer is stored in a refrigerated room.

The government is still gonna collect their tax money, no matter where Joe SixPack buys his beer.

[derek]

I lived in Ontario for a year recently, and about the only thing I miss from there is the beer selection and price. Their liquor sales system is no more free market than NS's, but for some reason Waterloo, a city with a population a fraction the size of Halifax, has a better selection and better prices than we get.

As the LCBO likes to point out, they're the largest single buyer of alcoholic beverages in the world. Plus, Waterloo is an hour from the distribution centre. There are advantages to the government system.

[derek]

My experience in newfoundland was the opposite - they can sell beer in corner stores, but it has to come from the nlc warehouse, and the selection is universally crap.

Which is what I understand the proposal to be, here. As it is now, the private stores have to bring their stock in through the NSLC warehouse, and even though it's not "universally crap", the warehouse frequently holds it up for six months or so.