Ontario taxpayers face footing the bill for hundred of millions of dollars in penalties if Premier Doug Ford forges ahead with his plan to allow convenience stores to sell beer. Allowing the province's 11,000 convenience stores to sell beer would breach the contract. We cannot disclose the details of these ongoing discussions," said an official with The Beer Store in a statement emailed to CBC News on Wednesday. Beer in convenience stores certainly won't be cheaper than at The Beer Store, where the brewers set the price. That is, unless he can paint "Big Beer" as the bad guy.

Source: CBC News April 18, 2019 07:52 UTC