{"id":17976,"date":"2012-11-29T09:33:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2012-11-29T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:33:51","slug":"qotd-transforming-ontarios-wine-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/29\/qotd-transforming-ontarios-wine-market\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Transforming Ontario&#8217;s wine market"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A major transition is never easy, but it would be worth it. The strategy we recommend would lead to more government revenue for health care and education; a sustained commitment to the socially responsible use of alcohol; increased economic growth based on greater access to markets; a renewed emphasis on responsible environmental practices; and wider choice, more convenience and competitive prices for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The present beverage alcohol system took shape at the end of Prohibition. For decades, Ontario has made minor repairs to the system when a complete overhaul was needed. In our view the government should focus its role on effective regulation, and restructure the system from top to bottom to establish a more competitive model.<\/p>\n<p>After 78 years, change is long overdue. It is time to transform Ontario&#8217;s beverage alcohol system for the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin.gov.on.ca\/en\/consultations\/basr\/report.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Part IV. Conclusion: Towards a Competitive System&#8221;, <em>A Report of the Beverage Alcohol System Review Panel<\/em><\/a> July, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major transition is never easy, but it would be worth it. The strategy we recommend would lead to more government revenue for health care and education; a sustained commitment to the socially responsible use of alcohol; increased economic growth based on greater access to markets; a renewed emphasis on responsible environmental practices; and wider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,41,131],"tags":[660,87,394],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-deregulation","tag-ontario","tag-privatization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4FW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17977,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}