An LCBO strike, and Ontario's long, strange history of booze policy | The Big Story

[@Hudsonrulez]

I hate Doug Ford. I despise the LCBO. I'm sorry but I have to agree on DF on this. We need lower prices not over paid clerks.

[@tonycommisso4096]

Governments shouldn’t run companies, union wants to maintain status quo

[@tinomoc9877]

Imagine going to the gas station buying alcohol and start drinking and driving.

[@Whiskey.T.Foxtrot]

My LCBO is right beside my gas station so what's the difference?

[@tinomoc9877]

@@Whiskey.T.Foxtrot your going to LCBO because you plan to drink, someone stopping at a gas station sober will be tempted to drink when he sees the alcohol.

[@robbydigital9144]

About F’N time

[@Sam19509]

All the non-alcoholic beers selling out of Dollarama and the grocery stores because of the strike.😂😂

[@jody-ne7xs]

Canada in a greater depression and these monopolized a holes on strike.

[@Whiskey.T.Foxtrot]

@@jody-ne7xs Canada is not in a depression or a recession. Don't post to broadcast your ignorance. Unemployment is very low. Poat-pandemic inflation is easing. There is real wage growth. Take a Midol and get a grip.

[@dorismcharg4134]

Foxtrot, you didn't finish middle school because you don't know how to read properly. Canada has a huge unemployment rate particularly compared with other G8 countries. People can't feed themselves. Half of their income is spent on food. The other half is spent on shelter. Have you heard of the term "homelessness"? 40 years ago, CHINEada's homelessness was almost non-existent. Taxes are so high like everything else, that suicides have accelerated to embarrassing percentages because people can't keep up. You forgot to take your Zoloft (schizophrenia medication) because you're not existing within reality..

[@owenrush8196]

Why can’t the media just tell the truth. The government doesn’t make most the profits from the stores, but taxes and wholesale markup. Closing stores would most likely save money. So much spin in this story.

[@tomtomburke22]

So I can buy a 7% cider and that's fine. But I want a 3% cooler and that's an issue? This makes 0 sense at all. I'm still going to my local lcbo to get spirits. I go there for their massive inventory since we have 10 in my town. I can't fathom this nonsense

[@CBe-ot8vu]

They litterally are still going to be the only place able to sell spirits. Bunch of greedy fools

[@walkerhaw5468]

Ontario needs to accept Margret Thatcher as it's lord and saviour. PRIVATIZE IT.

[@DarrenFrontera-s1w]

Quitzon Pike

[@Sam19509]

Medically unsafe not to drink. lol what a joke. They should just offer MAID to the addicts who would suffer.😂

[@rongraham1951]

Sounds like richard southern a conservative hater

[@DParker-qv2kz]

I guess there will be less alcohol related crimes and deaths . Alcohol should be illegal so it's good that they are on strike.

[@walkerhaw5468]

We tried making alcohol illegal and it was a farce buddy. Think before you talk.

[@Sam19509]

People will just buy alcohol from outside the province and even the US if it was banned in Ontario. 😂😂

[@DParker-qv2kz]

@@Sam19509 that's with the standing laws. If the laws were corrected a life sentence or death penalty would be the sentence if convicted of smuggling. Weak laws and weak sentences and lack of guidance is where we are today .

[@DParker-qv2kz]

@@walkerhaw5468 maybe with your democratic govt. And weak police. If I enforced it tomorrow there would be a life sentence in prison for anybody with it . Case closed

[@Whiskey.T.Foxtrot]

They tried this with Prohibition. It was a fliop and led to violent organized crime.