{"id":30923,"date":"2023-12-14T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30923"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:20:46","slug":"doug-ford-unveils-plans-to-allow-beer-and-wine-sales-in-ontario-convenience-stores-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30923","title":{"rendered":"Doug Ford unveils plans to allow beer and wine sales in Ontario convenience stores \u2014 in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/657b3a0ed4819.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"134\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The premier is uncorking additional choice for drinkers of beer, wine, hard seltzer and premixed cocktails \u2014 but it could take two more years for things to open up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/doug-ford-unveils-plans-to-allow-beer-and-wine-sales-in-ontario-convenience-stores-in\/article_0440c5e2-9a29-11ee-bb58-17829a9fb24d.html\">Doug Ford unveils plans to allow beer and wine sales in Ontario convenience stores \u2014 in two years<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Re: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30692&amp;cpage=1#comment-2172\" target=\"_blank\">Paul&#8217;s comment in a previous post<\/a>, the article suggests the Ontario government decided not to pursue scraping the 10-year deal early; it was to end in 2025; and announcing now fulfills the 2-year warning, thus preventing any possible litigation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;While Ford unilaterally tried to scuttle her deal with legislation in 2019,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-warns-premier-doug-ford-against-cancelling-beer-store-deal-that\/article_58d578cc-88e1-5744-ada9-5ff2a0b7ebcc.html\" target=\"_blank\">the United States Chamber of Commerce, the world\u2019s largest business organization<\/a>, warned of the consequences of cancelling such a contract and outlawing compensation payments for the multinational companies involved.<br><strong><em>Fearful of the prospect of Ontario being humiliated on the international business stage, the Tories backed off and decided to just let the master framework agreement run its course.<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>2023-12-15 &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/2023\/12\/ford-to-bring-alcohol-to-corner-stores-in-2026-in-bid-to-get-ontario-drunk-enough-to-re-elect-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beaverton<\/a> &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/2023\/12\/ford-to-bring-alcohol-to-corner-stores-in-2026-in-bid-to-get-ontario-drunk-enough-to-re-elect-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ford to bring alcohol to corner stores in 2026, in bid to get Ontario drunk enough to re-elect him<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;QUEEN\u2019S PARK \u2013 Premier&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/doug-ford\/\">Doug Ford<\/a>&nbsp;has announced that 2026 will see the province allow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/alcohol\/\">alcohol<\/a>&nbsp;sales in convenience&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/stores\/\">stores<\/a>&nbsp;and gas stations, in hopes that Ontarians will get so recklessly blitzed that they elect him to a third term.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premier is uncorking additional choice for drinkers of beer, wine, hard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[51,149,147,140],"class_list":["post-30923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-beer","tag-dougie","tag-ontario","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions\/30957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}