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BY SCOTT SIMMONS

A few years ago, the previous provincial government signed a 10-year sweetheart deal that picked three multinational companies as winners while making Ontario taxpayers, consumers, and local craft brewers the losers.

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This deal restricts who can sell alcohol, where stores can be located, how beer is sold, and artificially restricts the growth of craft beer in Ontario.

It put the corporate interests of a few multinationals ahead of the rest of us. As a result, these multinationals are making hundreds of millions in incremental profit each and every year at the expense of taxpayers and small brewers.

These unfair protections have made Ontario one of the most profitable jurisdictions in the entire world for these multinational companies, and one of the worst in Canada when it comes to convenience and choice.

That is not fair, and the new government is right for trying to change it.