CA: Free our wine, and the rest will follow
CA: Free our wine, and the rest will follow
Dec 5, 2010 6
he federal government should act on a motion by Ron Cannan, the MP for Kelowna-Lake Country, so that wine can flow more freely from province to province.
It is strange for a federal statute to establish a whole set of interprovincial trade barriers. But the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act was passed in 1928, to enable the provinces to consolidate their monopolies over the sale of alcoholic beverages, and to help “temperance” and “liquor-control” provinces coexist. At first, the Senate passed a sensible amendment, allowing a consumer – for example, in Lloydminster, Sask. and Alta., – to buy up to a gallon of such a fluid in one province and take it to another, but six provincial governments protested, and the Senate retreated.
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