{"id":6797,"date":"2010-12-09T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2010-12-08T12:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:24:44","slug":"qotd-ontarios-restrictive-puritanical-liquor-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/qotd-ontarios-restrictive-puritanical-liquor-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Ontario&#8217;s &#8220;restrictive, puritanical, liquor laws&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Later in the trip we were at a Napa Valley winery. During our winery tour, the guide mentioned that if we filled out an order form we could have a case of wine delivered to home or office. Then she stopped, looked at my friend and me, and said, \u201cOh wait, not to Ontario. You guys are worse than Utah.\u201d  She proceeded to list all the countries they ship to, two of which have majority Muslim populations. But Ontario was too much trouble, so they gave up trying. We could buy the wine and bring it over the border ourselves, but if it were to be shipped across the border it would clearly be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Our restrictive, puritanical, liquor laws are not just limited to restricting products or preventing private stores from selling alcohol. On our trip it became a running joke to point out things that were banned in Ontario. Happy hour is illegal in Ontario. I pointed to a seasonal winter beer in at a convenience store with a cartoon picture of Santa Claus on the label and noted it would be banned in Ontario. There is cheap beer across the U.S. because of intense competition, but Ontario has a price floor of $1.07 per bottle.<\/p>\n<p>So I pose the question that I was asked in the bar in San Francisco. Why are we so puritanical when it comes to alcohol?<\/p>\n<p>Hugh MacIntyre, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/12\/08\/hugh-macintyre-ontarios-liberalism-dies-at-the-brewery-door\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ontario\u2019s liberalism dies at the brewery door&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2010-12-08<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later in the trip we were at a Napa Valley winery. During our winery tour, the guide mentioned that if we filled out an order form we could have a case of wine delivered to home or office. Then she stopped, looked at my friend and me, and said, \u201cOh wait, not to Ontario. You [&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":[8,6,9,10,41,131],"tags":[52,210,104,395,322,87],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-absurd","tag-beer","tag-booze","tag-lcbo","tag-nannystate","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1LD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","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=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}