Premier Ford moving ahead with ready-to-drink cocktails in Ontario stores | LCBO STRIKE
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Ontario Premier Ford says he is not looking to sell LCBO and there will be no negotiations on ready-to-drink cocktails.
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Governments shouldn't run any business or have any monopoly...
Yeah we should take that revenue funding public services and give it to private corporations instead.
@@kzone272 -- revenue from booze sales wheather sold by the lcbo or the wine rack still goes to govt coffers.
@@kzone272 the revenue will still be there and probably increase if Gov leave other companies participate in the business, pay their share of royalties/tax instead of monopolizing it.
Drunkards and drug addicts being leader politicians and ministers idiots running canada . Ontario premier you should sort out gouging prices of groceries at loblaws zehrs .
You thief in pockets of grocery chain
@@kzone272why is that stupid premier of ontario concerned about booze . He should be targeting lob laws zehrs for gauging groceries food items prices every day .
We don't need the LCBO to get alcohol.
LCBO strike is really hilarious. The only thing they will achieve is that it will drive customers to other retailers for buying alcohol drinks, and get used it. They are doing favors of other retailers for more sales.
And put restaurant’s and bars into bankruptcy
@@berniejackson5149 the blood is on the LCBO's hands, and the restaurants can go to breweries, distilleries, wineries etc if they need alcohol.
@@LMGuelphdon't most bar owners use breweries and other main sources more than LCBO already? ( Given I don't know how restaurants operate their stock ).
@@berniejackson5149 either they adapt or close. It's up to them.
@@berniejackson5149 You must be the over-paid LCBO cashier.
we dont actually need the lcbo ... its not wrong ..
What is the obsession with alcohol when we have so many other bigger problems in Ontario?
It’s whoever greases Ford’s hands get priority. Lots of money to be made by private companies from breaking up the lcbo exclusivity. Ford already got his mega cottage, those don’t come cheap.
@@sharinglungs3226idiotic drug and alcohol addicts running canada or kennada or Kanata . What can one expects to be sober .
Its a start but spirits also need to be made available outside of the LCBO. End the antiquated monopoly now!
Lcbo and all the other province government own liqour store as a whole needs to go.
Lots of independents manufacturer spirits as well.
I'm absolutely SICK and TIRED of paying WAYYYYY too much for beer and alcohol. It's time to BREAK UP this ridiculous MONOPOLY (LCBO/Beer Store) and give Ontarions better pricing. Im NOT against anyone making better wages or having job security or benefits, not at all. I dont feel like I should have to pay $50 for a case of beer, or $63 for a jug of Crown Royal!!!!
You sound like an alcoholic
Most of the cost is government taxes.
You do realize it's going to cost millions to break the contract?
Corporations will take over and everything will be all smiles and sunshine lol🤦
Conservatives have already given wine and beer to the Big Box Corporations and in case you did not know the Beer Store is not owned by Canadians. You should also realize that the taxes (price) you pay on your booze pays for Health Care, roads and brings in billions for the government. If you do not like it stop drinking, there are options you know to whining.
Monoplies are fun!
Why is the government still running liquor and beer stores in Ontario? That does not seem to be an appropriate function for a government.
LCBO makes money. Pays for a lot of other stuff that we benefit from.
@@randolfo1265nope, you're mistaken. The LCBO does not make profit. The Ontario government makes money from the LCBO from all the taxes and licenses. Whether it's sold at the LCBO or anywhere else, the government gets their money.
@@smoothbraindetainer - "The LCBO does not make profit. The Ontario government makes money from the LCBO" Literally the same thing.
"Whether it's sold at the LCBO or anywhere else, the government gets their money." I know, that's this part: "Pays for a lot of other stuff that we benefit from." This is as much as I can explain it to you, I cannot understand it for you.
@@randolfo1265 so why lock it behind useless tape and bureaucracy? Do you ever use your brain for critical thinking or just for reciting lines that make you think you're smart?
@@smoothbraindetainer - You again? I said: this is as much as I can explain it to you, I cannot understand it for you. Your opinion is formed.
I worked at the LCBO and the biggest seller was always the mixed drinks. At least our location.
Age group?
@@pasqualinamichelaconsiglio9391 19 to 35.
Get rid of the CEO of lcbo over half million a years
@@stokerdave4168 - LCBO makes money, don't be a nitwit.
Half a million? Lol wait till you figure out what galen weston of loblaws makes a year 8.4 million or Dave McKay of rbc 17 million.
500k is horrible pay for a ceo of a 2 billion $ company.
@@randolfo1265 so will all the other business aloud to sell what the LCBO now sells. Don't be a nitwit
@@derek8564 - Yeah, but that profit goes to private hands, not roads, hospitals, schools. You remember school?
This monopoly is ridiculous !
It’s absurd how expensive LCBO has become.
I'm going to start making my own liquor
I for one wouldn't mind seeing whiskey and other spirits sold at Walmart, Loblaws, Food Basics or other grocery stores.
Why? How is it not easy enough to buy booze as it is already? And why should private corporations have more profit than they already do?
So you prefer Walmart to profit rather then the Canadian government?
It won't be spirits. It will be pre-mixed drinks and cocktails. They're on strike over coolers.
@@shanedouglas2952 you do realize that I mentioned more than one retailer right, or do you have a comprehension problem or selective reasoning based off your own personal biases?
@@UzumakiNaruto_ booze being readily available is the least of your problems bud, and I personally don't care who sells it, private or public as long as we get selection of all varieties and accessable to any store who is willing to sell it safely.
We don’t need the lcbo
Indeed, it's a anachronism.
Hope you like paying more taxes then. Lcbo profits go directly back into funding the province including healthcare, roads, police. Hope you love paying taxes.
@@ryanproulx4631 Private retailers pay taxes too. And alcohol sales are taxed everywhere.
@ryanproulx4631 where are the taxes going that you pay outside of the LCBO?? Your municipal taxes pay for this as well. Where do the business taxes go that municipals take? The LCBO doesn't account for municipal taxes, only the provincial ones; which take care of a lot. Misused but they account for a lot
@@ryanproulx4631 you look like a literal soyjack
So... the gov offered raises, increased access to benefits, and agreed to bring on more workers full time, and the union still says no because they want to sell coolers in stores?
If opseu gets everything they want, either prices go up again, they contribute less net taxes, or both. You can't increase the overhead by this much and not end up in one of those situations.
Overpaid retail workers at lcbo wouldn't stand a chance at any other store
Overpaid? Most of those workers are parttime workers with no benefits.
You should see the warehouse workers.
@@jamesagostino6816 We're not talking about part time workers, we are talking about full time LCBO employees. That's the only job that's close to government cushy jobs with few work, lots of pay and benefits.
I wouldn't say overpaid. Remember the days when someone could work full time at a retail or grocery store and make a living wage? Pay a mortgage, pay bills. It was considered a career. There is no hope of that now.
@@jamesagostino6816 So they make less than Walmart or Loblaws employees make?
The unions at lcbo messed up. Ontarians deserve options and best pricing with how expensive things are. To get gouged by lcbo and now employees of lcbo to make things more expensive for final consumer is a joke. Lcbo should enter distribution model like amazon / same day delivery, close stores, and pass the savings (rent, less theft, less wages, utilities) to consumers.
Yup. The whole thing is a farce. Striking to maintain a monopoly!?
LCBO doesn't determine the price of alcoholic-products lol, distributors do
@@dbmuir8683lol wrong
@dbmuir8683 The lcbo makes a profit margin of 34% which goes straight to funding other Ontario spending needs. The LCBO sets selling prices to Ontario consumers. The profit of $2.4B is largely from mark-ups on final selling prices to consumers.
These employees should remember their skills are not valuable, this is an entry level customer service job where you stock shelves with bottles. Like the kids do at food basics or any other entry level job.
@@dbmuir8683 they do
Just like teachers….
If you don’t like what you signed up for
Quit
So you're going to be a teacher? I didn't think so.
The difference between a teacher and the LCBO are that teachers are considered essential and have more leverage. LCBO not so much but I get your point.
Healthcare and Education and Roads: NOT BEER.
that takes money there peanut. tax revenue from private sector sales helps to fund the things you mention. as for healthcare lets adopt the swiss model of healthcare.
Lower the taxes. Beer in Quebec is half the price
Maybe when the strike ends ... we STOP SHOPPING THERE !
I favour expanding into grocery stores but not convenience stores. I just don't think it can be properly supervised there and it's too many locations for inspectors to cover.
Shouldn't our leaders be focused on reducing substance use and abuse, instead of promoting it?
With alcohol related healthcare and policing costs in the billions of dollars, and Impaired Driving at its highest levels in a decade, shouldn't government be focused on saving taxpayer dollars, and reducing crime and the toll it takes on families?
This is SHAMEFULL through and through.
I for one will really enjoy running to the corner store by my house to buy a case of beer before a bbq instead of driving into a busy strip mall. This is over due. Don’t make it something it isn’t
Guess you were under a rock during the pandemic when the alcoholics got the essential services treatment. Or maybe you weren't under the rock, just wilfully ignorant.
@@MsSgergsame.
love it.
Anything that his WOP handlers want!
We do not need the LCBO
Beyond the stores, I don't know what the LCBO does and if it's necessary.
We’re not putting spirits into ‘big box stores’. No explanation, great thanks ford
THANK YOU DOUG FORD!
I agree with Ford. Montrel and other Provinces already have this protocol. This is also the norm in the USA and many other countries. Evolution...
Quebec … Montreal is a city
@@hadesunderworld4203Regardless, you can buy it in the province of Quebec and most seeing my feed would use common sense there.
It's a slippery slope to corner crack shops from here.
Ridiculous hyperbole.
@@jptrainor-- his brother was literally a tweaker lol
We sell dope on just about every corner now, what is the difference ?
liberals have that market covered.
We already have those all across Canada. You can even order online.
Its going to be the east indain liquor board of ontario soon 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LCBO was essential during Covid...ehhhh, not so much now tho...hmmm
This time next year....every LCBO outlet will be a Spirit Halloween.
Does he know anything other than booze. That "ship has sailed"? Maybe he should sail away.
😂 yah
If spirits are exclusive to the LCBO than so should spirit based RTD's!
I thought ready to drink cocktails was beer
And .....when a preteen stumbles somewhere drunk on spiked energy drinks....who should be blamed?
Honestly this strike with LCBO is helping me get clean ironically.
Anyone trust anything DoFo says or does? Ruining Ontario by the day….
Ya I do
Lets re-elect Kathleen Wynn and the Liberals again because they did such a great job almost bankrupting Ontario
Lol, *That Ship has sailed and it's half way across lake ontario & its done*
Who needs the lcbo .
If LCBO keeps the hard liquor, and soft liquor expands it's won't cause huge damage just a 5-10% hit yearly. It will still be king of that market
So GLAD ready to drink booze is SOOO important right now
with justin in ottawa we all need to get drunk.
@@nickyalousakis3851 Blaming Justin for your alcoholism?
@@titusmccarthy -- no. everything else. come on now.... you can't be this willfully inept.
Ford is 100% right on this... The union is horrible....
How much does he have invested in the small places?
**THANK YOU FORD !!!! **....STOP THIS LCBO CURRUPTION....PLEASE GET THINGS PRIVATE ....ASAP ( WE HAVE CLOWNS ON BT)
we should sell the lcbo
Dont temp them they might sell it to the packistanies 😂
@@djtimmyturnup9656 -- dump your racism.
And say goodbye to $2.5 billion in revenue. Hospitals and education need the funds.
@@jamesagostino6816 -- not correct. revenue from alcohol is generated by the private sector. it's revenue neutral. this is a great idea.
@@djtimmyturnup9656Pakistanis are Muslims and they don't buy and sell but you can say Indians.
i wonder how many shares he has in ready to drink cocktails or owns
can we get that in writing.....lol....King of back trackers check his record ....just like the land deal ...and Bill 124.....start looking for new careers LCBO workers.....this ship is getting ready to sail...get out and vote out Ford
Let's be very clear. LCBO retail workers are NOT cheerful. Not at all
Doug The Slug.
When your job is on the line. We all might say we don't need the service your job offers. Dont be too quick to jump. Who owns convenience stores? Guess where the money goes..
Doug is running up massive debt…. We can’t afford him… vote him out!
And vote in who? The liberals or ndp? Yah, they don't have a spending problem.
The premade cocktails made in Canada are the most disgusting thing to ever be allowed in your body. Instand gutache.
OK, well you just stick to your bottled water then.
"Halfway across Lake Ontario!"
Lower taxes too
Free market always wins for the consumer
Liquor doesn't hit me like beer does though, but i dont mind liquor like chocolate kahlua & forty creek. 👍👍👍👍
Premier Dean Martin.
I whould like some crown royal?
We’re big kids now we don’t need the LCBO put it in the store no more strikes.
Just go to Detroit it's in every corner store .😂
What a visionary - booze at max milk and turn Ontario place into a giant massage parlor!
Ya your right, the world will certainly come crashing down. Whatever, time to do away with government controlled booze.
It's already a soulless morass of urban sprawl and strip malls. So why not.
ontario place will be the science centre. an truly awesome idea. a spa on the west end of ontario place generating income for the province = brilliant.
Alcohol destroys your wallet and your health so not too upset about this strike lol
Ok I get it make liquor cheaper, but, affordable housing, jobs, groceries ????
There’s jobs out there , the trades need workers .., but no one wants to work like that anymore
Groceries … you have to go and look at oil companies and food production corporations for that . They set the marketplace , grocery stores merely sell the product that they have to buy at a high price to begin with , they in turn need profit too , just how it works .
Grocery stores didn’t decide to shrink portions and increase price . The problem in so much larger than that lol
@@hadesunderworld4203 well he should get to the bottom of that. Not everyone wants to or can work in trades. Affordable housing. Things that actually make a difference in peoples quality of life. Wether or not I can buy my liquor at lcbo or a corner store doesn’t effect the quality of my life. But yet here we are.
MOAR BOOZE!!!!!!!!!!! - Ford Voters.
What is Dougies obsession with booze.
Why are you obsessed with talking about it ?
His goal is to remove the LCBO
And why would he do that lol brings in a lot for his government
Dissolve the LCBO. Privatize all liquor sales.
LCBO makes money. Pays for a lot of other stuff that we benefit from. Don't be stupid.
Im not sure how he can support it half way...clearly it means less sales of coolers at lcbo
It's more flavors do both sell diff stuff
Get rid of the LCBO
Sell off the LCBO
Seriously does this guy not have ANYTHING better to do? 🙄
He got rid of rent control for all buildings built after 2018 during a housing crisis. He's a THUG.
Just go to America 😆 alot cheaper, im thinking of moving 🤔
Quebec has American Alcohol prices.
Drive across the border.
Lcbo gotta go
I can't believe how long this has taken. Pretty sure this was part of the Liberal's platform... In 2007 😂
Ol Dougie can talk his way out of anything
you don't have to talk your way out of saying something that is sensible. this is sensible.
@@nickyalousakis3851exactly
This is a joke. Once a pusher, always a pusher.
what?
@@nickyalousakis3851 Ford was a drug dealer in high school.
How about adding Cannabis dispensary at each OnRoute on the 401 as the drive is so long between Toronto and Montréal
I am a conservative through and through but one has to question why this guys only focus is on booze!?
No more lcbo or beer store plz, overpriced
It’s going to become more expensive after being privatized. Do some research
We need the lcbo
Lol. It's a relic of a bygone era.
No we dont
No we certainly do not !
You booze you lose
Time to privatize booze sales! No need to involve union grunts where the private sector can and will do a better job!
Like how the private sector raised prices on food and got caught price fixing.....
@@user-xs9ij7rr9f They have a monopoly too, all owned by parent companies.
Privitize? That means higher prices, lousy wages, and lost government revenues. You really think Loblaws needs more profits.
@@jamesagostino6816 It's called competition comrade! And it does bring down prices and more importantly gets rid of the useless unions!
@@jamesagostino6816 It would actually increase revenue, no more wages, benefits, rent and insurance on retail space to cover.
Time to get rid of the Ĺcbo period.
This is one step closer to privatized healthcare in Ontario. Cut off funding for healthcare by reducing the income from LCBO sales. Then, let healthcare atrophy until nearly collapsed. then, offer a solution: privatized healthcare.
Ridiculous hyperbole.
it doesn't sound like you know what you are saying.
@@nickyalousakis3851 Yes he does!
Privatized health care sounds like a bad idea....
@@peterjanjanin9883 -- and yet it's a healthcare model that works tremendously well in switzerland, germany and all scandinavian countries. all of which have better healthcare on all metrics including outcomes and accessibility for the poor with almost no wait times and no long waits for crucial tests. privitization is not an enemy. lifelabs is privatized in ontario.... your doctor is privatized. anything run by govt will not ever be as effective as the private sector.
why does Doug want everyone drunk?
When your holy Messiah Justin was legalizing marijuana I bet you weren't asking why JT wants everyone high.
I think he makes money from the RTD drinks this guy is a crook
This guy is a clown
No he isn't. He is doing what is best for Ontario. Your just pissed because you work for the LCBO. A dead dinosaur.
i will vote for him again. he's far far better than any liberal has been in ontario.
all politicians are clowns a and the jokes on you.
Doug ford has my vote , I will never vote for the liberal, ndp party provincial or federal tax tax, I love Canada ❤️ 🇨🇦
Yup vote PPC
when's the last time they gave this guy a panel-drug-test? his brother was one of Toronto's most notorious crackfiends
@@AstroBear11 He probably has cheesecake in his suit jacket pockets.
We don’t need LCBO, there’s beer everywhere in the grocery stores even colder too.
By the time Ford is gone, you'll be able to pick up alcohol when you go pick up your kids from school😂
yay.
Not to mention crack.
@@titusmccarthy I feel like that would be done at the back of a school bus 😂
@@titusmccarthy -- liberals have already covered that market.
@titusmccarthy wrong that's the liberal, ndp party.
That's my Real Egg Doug Ford! We love you Doug!
Privatize & Right to Work legislation (make union dues optional) + Universal tariff rates on all imports entering The Province of Ontario.
You will see wages and safety drop.
@@ericgeorgetruckgrilling No - Invest more $$$ into the Ministry of Labour + Fines.
You've never been in a union, have you? Another "free thinking" "rugged individualist" who probably relied on CERB during COVID.
The courts disagree with you bud. LCBO aren't considered essential workers, that's why Dougie can't table legislation or enact the NWC.
Doug Ford hates you btw!
I don't often agree with Doug however that's politics and I do stand with Doug on this one.
lol Dougy!!! Awesome!!
Don’t Fold now Justin I mean Doug. Get them spirts in the corner store
Say the tax payers money