Liberal Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne addresses Provincial Council at Caesars Windsor on October 18, 2014. (Photo by Jason Viau)

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The battle between the Ontario Government and the Beer Store is brewing as Premier Kathleen Wynne says “the work on optimizing assets is critically important.”

Premier Wynne asked TD Bank chair Ed Clark to find efficiencies within public assets. Clark has said taxpayers deserve a fair cut of beer profits in the province.

During a Liberal conference in Windsor over the weekend, Wynne wouldn’t indicate if asking for more profits will raise the price of beer — but she says Ontarians won’t be disadvantaged.

Wynne told reporters she plans to act on Clark’s recommendations very soon. “Not so that we can sit on them and spend three years thinking about them, but so we could begin to implement and begin to make the changes that we know are necessary,” says Wynne. “In order to optimize those assets and have the resources to invest in transit and transportation infrastructure that we need.”