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RSS FeedsFinance minister turns down heat in Tories´ fight with The Beer Store
(The Star Food)

 
 

15 august 2019 23:56:20

 
Finance minister turns down heat in Tories´ fight with The Beer Store
(The Star Food)
 


Striking a conciliatory tone about the Progressive Conservative government’s push to liberalize the sale of beer and wine, Finance Minister Rod Phillips says he will be meeting with the major breweries within days.That’s in hope of achieving a compromise to avoid taxpayers being stuck with up to $1 billion in financial penalties for breaking the province’s 10-year deal with the Beer Store.“We promised that we will make beer and wine more available and we will do that, but we’re going to do that in a purposeful way,” said Phillips.“We have a lot of priorities in our government and we’re going to make sure we keep all our commitments, but, again, there’s a complex web of stakeholders,” the treasurer said Thursday.“I am working constructively with them and we will be moving forward on that in a purposeful way and I do believe that you will be able to get your favourite brand in a corner store,” he said, “but we’ll do that in a way that makes sense.”Phillips said he will be meeting with representatives of Molson, Labatt and Sleeman at the end of the month to discuss the issue.“They’re one of a number of stakeholders we need to work with around liberalizing alcohol availability ... to bring Ontario into line with the rest of the country,” he said.His comments were in contrast to the fiery moves from predecessor Vic Fedeli, who Premier Doug Ford demoted to economic development minister in the June 20 cabinet shuffle.Fedeli passed legislation to unilaterally cancel an accord with the major brewers inked by the previous Liberal government in 2015, which limited the number of supermarkets where beer and wine could be sold to 450 locations.That controversial law, which raised the ire of the United States Chamber of Commerce, has yet to be enacted.Under terms of the “master framework agreement” that was to be in place until 2025, the treasury could be on ...


 
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