It could cost Ontario taxpayers more than $1 billion in damages to the Beer Store to keep Premier Doug Ford’s campaign promise to sell beer in corner stores. Soon you’re going to be able to pick up a case of beer, or a bottle of wine at corner stores across Ontario. “When Ontario started letting some grocery stores sell beer and wine, did the sky fall? We’re negotiating with the Beer Store and I’m sure you appreciate, Alan, I can’t get into all the details,” he told Carter. Queen’s Park could be on the hook for hundreds of millions in severance payments, pension liabilities and lease termination costs if the Beer Store, which employs 7,000 unionized workers, is shuttered.

Source: thestar April 23, 2019 19:37 UTC