CBC really playing up how the strike hurts people with little discussion on how workers are treated.
The Canadian Press article pushed out today about the strike ending had a quote from one rando guy outside a store saying “If Doug had courage he would have liquidated the LCBO” with no explanation on how that would have been a clusterfuck, no input from experts or anyone who matters, no counter viewpoints, it was sad.
It’s such a disgusting waste of taxpayer dollars. Would I like to see expanded hours and locations? Absolutely, but privatizing ANOTHER Crown corporation isn’t the way to go about it. LCBO contributes something like 2.5 billion dollars to the Ontario government. I haven’t seen anything from Ford about how that revenue stream will be replaced after it gets redirected into the pockets of Circle K.
The purchasing power the LCBO has is crazy. So, removing that dynamic will increase prices and ruin selection.
and increase private profits
