After the Trudeau government legalized cannabis, Ontario’s Doug Ford is promoting cheap, convenient alcohol.
Beer sits in a storage space at an LCBO store in Toronto. By Alan Freeman May 3 at 6:00 AM OTTAWA — Canada drew global attention last year — and plenty of weed-seeking tourists — when it became the world’s first advanced economy to legalize cannabis, an election promise by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Ford, a 54-year-year-old businessman from Toronto, is the anti-Trudeau. A right-wing populist with a brash and combative style that has earned him comparisons to Donald Trump, he relishes promoting the little guy and attacking elites. At the moment, for example, he’s waging a war against Trudeau’s federal levy on carbon and its impact on gas prices. The measure is aimed at fighting climate change; Ford calls it “the worst tax ever, bar none.
Journalists have noted that the words “alcohol” or “beer” appear 46 times in the budget. Teachers rated just 25 mentions. Beer is a $6.8 billion industry in Canada, the land of Molson and Labatt, and Ontario is its center, with more than 200 breweries. But the province is still living with a long history of strict, religiously inspired alcohol regulation. Retail sales of spirits and most wine remain the purview of a provincially owned monopoly known as the Liquor Control Board.
Pollster Nik Nanos says a Ford voter is more likely to be a beer drinker than a consumer of cannabis or wine. Ford isn’t running directly against Trudeau, but Nanos says his populist pitch should make the Liberals worry.
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