🇨🇦 $8 million to warehouse a political tantrum

Ontario yanked $79 million in U.S. booze off LCBO shelves, then spent another $8 million babysitting it in warehouses while $2.6 million expired. Sixteen months later, Doug Ford’s government still cannot explain the plan, because there probably wasn’t one beyond looking tough for a news cycle. The records confirmed that 97 per cent is still sitting there, untouched, while Queen’s Park hides behind advice to government redactions like taxpayers are peasants who should just shut up and fund the stunt.

This is the managerial state in one tidy Canadian farce: performative nationalism with zero competence, zero transparency, and a bill shoved onto the public. Other provinces managed to return some product to shelves or move it out. Ontario chose secrecy, storage fees, and spoilage. Same old Trudeau-era political culture, just with a blue tie instead of a red one: optics first, logistics never, accountability nowhere. If your province cannot even move cases of whiskey without burning millions, spare us the lectures about nation-building and economic stewardship.

🍁 Maple Chronicles