Andrew Coyne

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2,831 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

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uh and and at relatively low cost to consumers in Canada.

You know, you can always choose other booze.

Uh you can you can still get wine from other countries and other types of booze.

Uh so it's relatively low cost to consumers, seems to be a lot of public support for it, relatively easy to enforce and

It's done at the provincial level.

And I think as part of these negotiations, it you know, there's a there's sometimes the peop different people play different parts.

Having a a loose canon like like Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario.

Uh it gives some

plausible deniability to the feds.

The feds can say, Look

We can't control this guy.

We you know, we'll we'll lean on him, but we may not be able to get him to come on board for this.

Uh um so as part of all this game playing, uh having different um um different uh uh um uh penalties imposed at different levels.

uh has its uses.

So I'm not sure what broader lessons we can draw from it because of the peculiarities of the liquor market in this country.

Uh but to come back to your point, it certainly got their attention, is certainly a

bargaining chip that we can play and I agree with you that we should hold off on playing it until we

Absolutely have to.

And again, always with the proviso of

Is there is it worth playing that bargaining chip at all, uh um if you can't be sure you get a deal?

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