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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, doting grandmother that she is, thinks we’ll all be drinking two-buck chuck from a paper bag and wallowing drunk in the gutter if beer and wine are allowed to be sold in corner stores.

Same goes for NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, another nanny-in-the-making who does not trust the electorate will be able to control themselves from becoming raging alcoholics if the monopolies now in control of provincial booze sales are forced to face the competition supposedly inherent in free enterprise from some hard-slogging mom and pop in a convenience store.

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One assumes, of course, that Wynne stocked up on the champagne for her 65th birthday on Monday, since every booze outlet in the province was locked up tighter than Queen Victoria’s knickers to celebrate the holiday named in her honour.

We are such prudes when it comes to booze and will be forced to be just as judicious with marijuana when Justin Trudeau’s wish comes true before year’s end, and Canadians begin seeking out non-public holes in their environments to toke up so that it is out of sight and out of whiff.