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Doug Ford wants alcohol in convenience stores
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It's sad that our regulations about alcohol sales are so restrictive, but it's unfortunately very necessary because of how our built environment exists. It's correlated with drunk driving deaths because there's not enough ways to get home that aren't driving. We can't really fix one without the other. I'd love to have a European-style picnic with wine I bought at the store on the corner, but that means at least 10% of the people on the road are going to be drunk driving at any given time which isn't ideal.
Yo can buy wine and beer in corner stores and drink in parks all over Quebec and it's not a problem. Ontario isn't different, except for the persistent smell of prohibition (which started in Ontario!).
They said the same thing about weed stores and there hasn't been any increase in accidents.
Those who want to drink will drink, making it more accessible won't change that. It'll be nice not having to drive multiple kilometres to get a sixpack.