The Ford government is about to change booze retailing in Ontario. Billions of dollars are at stake | CBC News
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"The Ford government has for months been engaged in closed-door consultations with industry players on what it calls 'modernizing' the alcohol sales regime in Ontario. For Ford's Progressive Conservatives, the chief goal is meeting a yet-to-be-fulfilled 2018 campaign promise to allow convenience stores to sell beer and wine. But multiple sources in various parts of the alcohol and retail industry say much more than that is on the table."
"Here's what they say are the issues at stake: Will the government shrink the LCBO's profit margins, including its take from products that other retailers sell? Will retailers such as grocery and convenience stores be required to devote a certain amount of shelf space to Ontario-made beer and wine?"
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