Doug Ford announced plans for beer in convenience stores
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2024
- Alcohol sales in Ontario will be enhanced in grocery stores and expanded to convenience stores this summer, a year-and-a-half sooner than expected, following a deal that will see the Ontario government provide The Beer Store up to $225 million for the early rollout.
"We are delivering on our commitment to give consumers in Ontario the choice and convenience every other Canadian enjoys and we’re doing so even sooner than we had originally promised," Premier Doug Ford said in a statement Friday.
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This is bull , there are better things to provide to the problem then alcohol, government should get their heads out of their asses and quit this marketing bullshit and get to things that matter.
Tories never do that.
We could only wish.
lol like what ? Oh you think Ontario will be the only place on the world doing that
Lol ya if the booze doesn't work, they'll sign you up for MAID
That won't happen with ol' Dougie at the helm
Citizens: Can you make living wages a policy?
Doug Ford: No! But it's now easier to drink your sorrows away in your homeless encampment
Now the homeless camps can really party! Oh boy!
@@krismctopher7 if this tent is a-rocking then I'm having an addiction induced seizure
Living wages is subjective, if you didn't plan ahead when you were younger , you're going to have to work more
It's that simple, I know because I did the same thing. Now I must work harder
Maybe get an education to get a better job. Burgerking isn’t going to cut it
@@djphlangethe Liberal way! Lmao I still can’t get over these clowns have the nerve to say anything at all! What a baboon you folks are!! Educate yourself bozo 🇨🇦🤦
Breaking news: robberies at your local 7/11 have increased 10,000%
Of course. Are weed shops being robbed 24/7? Amazing the STOOPIDITY in this country its scary.
@@bmw803 You need to be 19+ to enter a weed store, they have hefty requirements for cameras and security and product is kept under lock and key. That being said they get robbed alot more frequently than the news would let you know. My local circle K closed due to robbery in a nice area without alcohol being available.
Beer in convienence stores more important than housing, education, and healthcare which are provincial jurisdiction. lol
More addictions, broken relationships, and drunks on the roads. Then he has the gall to use God's name in vain and say " God bless". What a lying deception.
Yup. Thanks for nothing Dougie
JUST MOVE ON FORD SAID! FOR THOSE IN ENCAMPMENTS!
. SURE l!!!! Everyone is stoned to death because pot became legal and sold in various stores. As soon as beer is available in corner stores, you think Divorce attorneys will be swamped with divorce cases? You love drama do you?
Doug Ford is constantly solving Ontario’s least important problems
@aphrx this was only a problem for him. I guess in his neighborhood the variety store is closer than the beer store. Who needs jobs at the beer store when Doug says you don't matter.
What a complete waste of time and effort. And to what end? To further dilute a provincial revenue stream? To make it easier for alcoholics with DUIs to get their fix? Was going to the LCBO really that much of an imposition?
I wish Ford would put this much focus on ACTUAL ISSUES that he does on beer. What a waste of time.
Beer & circuses. 🍺🎠🤡
Convenience stores making it convenient for alcoholics
Doug needs drunk voters.
Making more alcoholics !
What's next? Cheap cigarettes sold in schools?
Works everywhere else
@@krismctopher7dumb analogy
A solution to a problem nobody asked for.
Yeah, support alcoholism. Why don’t they say how many people have liver cirosis from alcohol, and that you need to wait 6 months to see a specialist. What a joke
Between 1997 and 2016 165,979 individuals across Canada were diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver
OPP which he is in charge of as a provincial leader, now has mandarory breathalizer test no matter the reason you pull over.. think about that.. as he makes alcohol more convienent to purchase. He is setting up the idiot drivers to fail and get them off the streets in their cars
So now instead of panhandlers at every LCBO and beer store, there will be one at every convenience store in your neighbourhood.
Corner stores will have to reno and invest to increase security. Some will hire guards. Some will not be able to compete.
@@krismctopher7its disgusting
Better to spread them out lol instead of all of them, huddled up at the LCBO😂 no but seriously in Quebec this is already legal and we don’t have crackheads everywhere lol
@@ashlaraque4135 Quebec has grown up with it. Quebec is different. Ontario will degenerate further into an American hellscape.
. Have you traveled anywhere else? If you did, you would have seen that none of this shit is the case.
Isn't this the same guy who came up with that "buck-a-beer" thing?
Yes. He and JT must go !
Out of the camera's eye... this guy must be a raging alcoholic !!! You don't get a Bulbus Bow Gut by drinking water.
Liquor destroys lives. Keep it at LCBO
Amen !
I'd lobby for less liquor stores
Dont worry many of them will die if you can buy beer and milk in the same place..
Me to its saves tax payers money.
When did alcohol and drugs become so important...maybe issues like healthcare, rehab,homelessness etc should be top of the agenda...not creating more problems
How is this the most important issue in Ontario? I would like to hear about better health care less wait times. This is nothing but a photo op.
It's destroying the fabric of our society even further ! More addictions, more broken relationships, more drunks on the roads killing innocent people !
This might create more of a crisis...
SORRY WE BLEW ALL THE CASH!
We will be paying for health care out of our own pocket in no time. None of these profits from privatization go back to Ontario. Health care or food? This is a joke
@@kinmountgoddess More money for him and his buddies to steal! We get stuck with the bill! Thats what he's doing! SC**WING US OVER!
The great state of Etobicoke? Lol
oh look.
DoFo is making it easier to get addicted to booze.
and ahead of "schedule".
but daycare?
minimum wage?
healthcare?
education?
.....
Doug can stop at the store and get a couple of beers for the drive home😂
To eat along with that steak! All while he leaves the rest of us to est s**t and die!
And now the people of Ontario will be more MADD than ever ! DF just added fuel to the fire big time !
Yeah, like that's important... what a joke this is 😂
We don’t need more places to buy beer. We need affordable housing and lower interest rates. Oh ya and healthy food we can afford.
Lower interest rates, so you can pay inflated prices, because you're buying a monthly payment? We need higher rates. Because most people are worse than children and need to be babysat.
We should be encouraging people to live a life free of alcohol, this is a step in the wrong direction.
Judgmental much
No lots of us like to drink, but you can do it responsibly as an adult, and it needs to be regulated properly.
Besides this is a gimmick on his part to distract from all that he isn't doing.
More addictions, more broken relationships, more drunks on the road, more innocent people dying ! Thanks Doug, and dont say " God bless" to this mess !
Not for him though. You are aware that the LCBO rakes in millions in taxes for political parasites like Dougie, right?
Brainwashed much? It would appear that you are. Unless of course, you are one that would benefit easy alcohol access because it's one of your vices.
I imagine thieves are gonna love this.
Shorter distance to travel to steal alcohol,
Why steal at the liquor store when you can steal at the local store.
Putting store owners and clerks at risk for their safety,
The loss of money from stolen items, this sounds like a wonderful idea.
The sky is gonna fall isn't it? Are weed shops being robbed 24/7? More drama from a bunch of ignorant halfwits.
Funny I said the same thing lol
@monicavaniderstine8768 Are those same thieves robbing weed shops more and robbing those same corner stores from their cigarettes? The lack of logic here is astonishing and the "political polarization" is SCARY. NOTHING WILL CHANGE. Just like the sky hasn't fallen in October 2018 when weed got legal.
Here comes the Dui's and more innocent people being killed. Ontario keeping you safe! Great job Dougie. 😐
Why not? His brother would have sold crack in every convenience store.
Maybe that's coming...look at the pilot project out west and how well that went
His brother sold hash not crack.
"Working for you" - This is joke right ? :D
This is a bad idea.
agreed
Why it works everywhere else. Never traveled in your life ?
With crime a theft rates sky rocketing.... this definitely is not a good idea... get ready to see every police department tied up with robberies 24/7.
@@jumbome7420 Do you always make huge assumptions about people on the internet you know nothing about?
Another sissy Canadian, grow some balls
..... Because beer in conveience & sanitary pads in mens washrooms are the most important issues facing Canada today??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Times are tough, let us drink away the pain.
@@MrMooMoo89 LOL
The Tories always know how to point over there. They've been doing it for over a century.
@@krismctopher7 even in Harper's second term he'd try to justify his apathy by saying, "Well under the previous governement..."
he doesn't attempt important issues because it means disrupting the status quo, his financiers will not be pleased if he harms their cash-cow
Is anyone actually advocating for beer and wine sales in convenience stores or just their lobbyists?
Good point right there 👌
worst idea ever , more drinking and driving.
Why? So, no one can get drunk because beer is sold at a beer monopoly store?
In the 15 min city everyone will have beer available within walking distance!
Do you think Beer and unaffordable Housing is more important to Toronto right now? Doug Ford must be smoking whatever his brother had left. - Damian Krypt
Knee deep in the old stash. Hes a total idiot.
He always dovthings that hurt people. He took cap off rent an all the landlords got greedy an took advantage of people.
Interesting timing as they literally just implemented a mandatory breathalizer for any routine traffic stop.
Next will be breathalyzer tests for walking on the sidewalk or in your front yard !
Ya I was wondering about that
Funny how everything these politicians do have a hidden agenda
No matter what side of the aisle you are on
@@user-qj9ig8vz5wdon’t give them any ideas lol
Enough of our freedoms have been stolen
@@monicavaniderstine8768 True !
Is this what he is doing in office wasting precious time on this nonsense? Do we have a booze crisis here in Ontario? No but we have a housing and inflation crisis. This announcement is so frivolous. Disgusting.
We absolutely have an alchohol problem in Ontario ! Now even more drunk drivers will be on the road causing accidents and killing innocent people !
He wants to make it easier to drink himself. Crack killed his brother, and now he wants to drink his own sorrows away.
Remember, he started out with dollar beer...vote him out next time. I live in downtown Toronto and have a druggie shelter and a 24-hour convenience store in my neighbourhood. Our building has been broken into several times. There's recently been a murder. I smell trouble...and gunpowder.
Liquor stores were not closed during covid. Drink up people.
Why not enough drunks and druggies on the streets of Toronto already, are you Doug Ford and the retail stores going to increase the budget for the treatment of addiction and the complications ? Great state of Etobicoke{8:43} you said, its already having an adverse affect.
They ruin your lives and make it easier for you to forget they did
Really!?!?. How about better healthcare, affordable housing and what about eliminating Trudeau's carbon tax which does nothing for the environment except line politician's pockets. How about looking after your constituents for a change?
When they say "axe the tax", they aren't telling you that when they do, every other country we trade with will slap CARBON TARIFFS on us so fast your head will spin. Then they'll put the tax back on. Don't fall for the bullshit they are trying to sell you.
This is so we can all get drunk and forget how Ford is dismantling our health care system.
If the Cashier is under 19 years old can they sell Beer to a Customer?
Good point
Nope. Be 19 or lose that job.
This is a step backwards, again.
Amen !
Convenient EH. They want more sales because all booze provides 50% of taxes to Government.
How dare him say " God bless !
There’s nothing SAFE about alcohol. You cannot expect the general public to monitor themselves regarding their intake of alcohol.Alcohol should be closely monitored and only sold in designated liquor stores.
Here we go again, Doug Ford fixing a problem that does not exist. Hopefully distracting us from the real issues. Grocery chains have pulled alcohol products from shelves because there is no profit margin from the volume. Currently the LCBO and Beer Store provide massive choice, small stores cannot do this. Remember Buck a Beer?
What about affordable housing? Can you sell those at convenient stores too?
Thats why they sell lottery tickets!
This is stupid. Ahead of schedule on selling beer. But housing,education can wait and when did the Etobicoke become a state. Plus Doug is at the beer store every day.?
Is that why he looks like Spongbob? All that beer…sheesh!
Three should be a law in Ontario that beer producers must carry a value line of beers for $1 each. We don't need more access as much as financial relief. Also there must be a law prohibiting larger beer companies to buy out smaller ones who provide discount beer like Honey Lager once provided. What Labatt did was unscrupulous. Offered the CEO of Honey Lager millions of dollars to sell them the rights and quickly raised the price to match domestic beer prices.
Hello folks! Here we are in Etobicoke, the heartland of Ontario, I live a few blocks away.
Last thing we need is MORE alcohol, i hate this more than anything.
state of where?
he is trying his best with these low effort things to have us forget the absolute atrocity he is causing in healthcare, education, and housing.
Holy shit this government has its priorities in the gutter.
"frightening uptick in youth intoxications, and driving while under the influence"..
How long
Not only youth are drunk drivers !
@@wqv5423ln hence the fuckin comma.
Doug Ford should never do a press release without a beer in his hand. Any idea of extra security needed in convenience. The horrendous 401 crash of 2 weeks ago was precipitated by a theft from LCBO - if they can't handle security how will stores
Thank you doug, this is what Canada needed right now, theres nothing else we should be paying attention to, or outright revolting against in this country.
The weather is “provincial”, Northwestern Ontario would disagree with that. Bet this guy just lives in his GTA bubble.
What's Ford's next brilliant idea? Reducing the drinking age to 12?
He just doesn't want to waddle all the way to a LCBO/Beer Store.
Focused on the important issues as always.
can ANYONE tell me why we need this? like whyyyyyyy? i hate the big belly smiles in front of the wall of alcohol. like i know there’s bigger issues in this province to tackle? i feel like this only makes it easier for druggies to access (steal).
his brother rob ford would be proud
You can buy booze anywhere, they're called 'convenience' or 'specialty' shops. A good percentage of them are right next to grocery stores. Heaven forbid people have to move their lard butts out one door and into the one next before waddling back to their car parked in the handicapped zone...seen that more than once
One of the more important issues of our times
Crime and cost of living numbers through the roof… lets sell beer at corner stores. Dougie cone on now
If this doesn't drive the price of alcohol down (which I doubt) than I don't really care.... Say how about the living wage?
It means higher prices , as they can control LCBO or BeerStore but not private business! Licenses cost money !
Corner stores will have to reno and invest to increase security. Some will hire guards. Some will not be able to compete.
The problem is that they control LCBO prices.
The prices at the LCBO are controlled by the government. The beer store is a private company with a special agreement last I checked, which includes adhering to government guidelines on pricing. It's basically a private monopoly majority owned by major multinational alcohol companies. There's a good documentary about it that's available on youtube about how it's a racket, not sure if it's still there though. It was made many years ago.
Yeah let's sell more alcohol, so they can get behind the wheel and take lives.
Yes... We are more MADD than ever now !
@@wqv5423ln Agree, and speeding is a problem as well. I understand you can go 10 over, but the majority of people want to go 70km on city streets with medium traffic and people jay walk all the time. They wouldn't be able to stop suddenly going so fast.
when are we gonna be able to drink in public? I want my freedom!
Who's preventing you?
dont we already have alchohol at shoppers drug mart?
Time to stop wasting money on beer and alcohol stores! I’m sure they spend millions on wages and buildings. Everything should be terminated. Ontario people could use a taxpayer reduction with all the money saved. And No I don’t care about any employees job, they are a waste of $50 to 75,000 dollars a year to sling beer.
20 30 years ago it would have been the time.
Now with juvenile adults and others who don't know how to behave act appropriately be prepared for news at 11, another convenience store robbed! Another traffic fatality by a driver who waa impaired!
They have problems with cigarettes.
Treating adults like adults and adults acting like adults two very different things!
Now the homeless camps can really party! Oh boy!
The sad truth is many so called " adults" are driving under the influence every day and killing innocent people ! Now we are even more MADD at this gov't !
So be a nanny state instead of fixing the problems?
Why would you want beer in convenience stores???
So you don’t have to go a half hour out of your way to buy a 6 pack for the weekend
Money ! Corrupt gov't !
@@woodrmp1 ... sounds like poor planning to me.
@@Havre_Chithraeither that or I’m a working professional with young kids and a house to take care of, so wasting half an hour is not my idea of good time management. From your picture, it doesn’t seem like you would have any of these responsibilities or possibly even a serious job/career. I also don’t live in a downtown condo with an LCBO 50 feet from the front door.
@@woodrmp1 I have enough responsibility to not drink 6 on the weekend.
This isn't quebec here , not everyone is an alcoholic. geeze
Ahhh yes, easier access to booze = The number one issue that the people of Ontario are worrying about right now.
How come all he cares about is beer
doogie sure likes his booze. a longstanding family tradition. that and selling hash back in the day. go hard, eh.
No better time while half cant afford food.. one can supplement with a can of beer.
I think ya can use the can to roast a chicken down by the river beside the tent?
You most certainly can roast a small piece of chicken in a can. Down by the tents where the watermelons grow bud
Doug ford owns a beer label company that also makes shrink sleeves for tall cans. He will profit large from this deal.
convenience store robberies will go up sadly
"housing is out of control , addiction is rampant, and immigration is destroying this country." best i can do is put alcohol in Gas Stations . Doug Ford 2024
"State of Etobicoke"? WTF? Is he trying to separate from the rest of Ontario where his family lives (Etobicoke)? He's always been about "buck a beer" and now this crap and the whole license plate fiasco - things that we didn't ask for (I'm glad to keep my money for the plates but it was kind of implied for having a vehicle)
Priorities...
Notice this is only beer and not hard liquor from the LCBO. The difference is the government already has a monopoly on hard liquor so the full profit belongs to the government. The beer on the other hand the government only gets the taxes as the beer store is not owned by the government.
3:15 is Doug high? His smile man.. and the great state of Etobicoke??? State???
Since the pandemic crime has gone up 300% for youth (between the ages of 12-30 yr olds.)...convenience stores are easy pickings for this age group.....pretty sure these alcohol products will end up in the wrong hands.🤨🤨🤨
Now Ontarians will be more MADD than ever ! This is why I voted New Blue party in the last election ! And Doug Ford kicked out our Cambridge MP, Belinda Karahalious !
Ptefer you to treat us like an American. 50 bucks a case here is getting out of hand
Thank you, Premier Ford, we will now have an accelerated crime rate and more problems for the City than tackling other pressing issues that the city is suffering. We still extend our hands of appreciation for this Absurdity.
Mr. Beer - first buck a beer, then beer in parks, now this - now corner store robberies - we want things that really matter not alcohol !
The Ontario government had to pay the BEER STORE $225 million to start rolling this plan out a year earlier. Yes $225 million to the Beer Store to start selling Alcohol at stores because they wanted the sales to start early!!! 😡
Sure will be nice for convenience
But what does convenience matter when you don’t have enough money to buy beer because 100% of your income goes to over inflated housing costs !!! Think of all the affordable housing that could be built with $225,000,000 !!! The government knows we have failed to build enough affordable housing in the past 30 years already. Yet with all this talk about housing needed now a couple years ago they are only building a tiny portion of what’s need NOW!! Let alone what will be needed in ten years.
We have done this to our children!!! We have put our children, parents and ourselves in a very bad situation where affordable housing/housing itself will be a privilege not a right like the many generations before!!
Please Get involved now, without YOU nothing will change the fact a housing tsunami is coming and our children’s generation won’t see things go back to normal in their lifetime ❤️❤️🇨🇦
Good job, Doug Ford. Thanks.
Maybe the "special interests" don't like the new rules on expanded beer sale, but the public is better served.
Also, leave Ontario Science Center where it is, at Eglinton & Don Mills. Thanks.
I don’t understand why convenience stores can’t sell alcohol from years ago like for the love of God, you go into Toronto there’s illegal mushroom stores everywhere. The government does nothing about that. I don’t understand why the government makes it so hard for convenience stores to sell legal alcohol.
lol you don’t understand much
A former hash dealer still in charge of running Ontario in 2024, crazy world we live in today. 😜
Alcohol is now available 24/7. This is ridiculous
Wow what a great idea....Get more alcohol to the young and homeless
Omg yes this is exactly what the people of ontario have been asking for! This is definitely a high priority item. (Sarcasm)
Omg get with times ffs. Modelo in oxxo. 106 pesos/6 pack. Get the govt outta the way.
Yes go have a beer Doug .
That's what his family is known for.