It's the holiday season! Just in time for the Ontario Auditor-General to throw the "Board" of the LCBO under the bus. Ooh, look at the treadmarks! The A-G says the liquor board isn't even trying to keep costs down by trying to squeeze its suppliers to reduce their prices. Instead, the Board is actually telling some suppliers they need to charge more. Why? Because it is, apparently, some sort of code. "It's a tradition," says the Board."(Fighting for better prices) is not the way we do things here at the LCBO." You just have to look at the price of medium-priced wine and spirits. Eighteen bucks for a nice bottle of vino. Thirty bucks for a mid-priced bottle of Scotch. Aren't we being punished enough by paying exhorbitant taxes? Why does the LCBO pay premium prices to suppliers when it can use its monopoly to cut us a break? According to the A-G, it's part of the LCBO's strategy to get us to drink less. So they...
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