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PC Leadership Candidate will Tank TBS Monopoly
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:33 pm
by pootz
http://www.hillierforleader.com/randy-h ... tribution/
RANDY HILLIER TO OPEN UP BEER AND WINE DISTRIBUTION
Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington, PC Leadership candidate, announced today he would allow competition to the foreign owned Beer Store.
“Beer distribution in this province is currently controlled by foreign companies.” Hillier said. “In these tough times we need to give struggling small Canadian businesses like corner stores, restaurants and hotels more opportunities.”
“Dalton McGuinty is costing local Ontario businesses millions of dollars, to the benefit of foreign-owned breweries.”
Hillier proposes to allow corner stores to be able to sell wine and beer. As well restaurants, bars and hotels would be able to sell off-sales to further help their businesses.
“These changes will help Ontario’s service industry grow and prosper, and provide more options for Ontarians” continued Hillier.
The Hillier campaign is anchored by three central principles: Freedom, Justice and Democracy.
Randy Hillier was first elected to the Ontario legislature in October 2007 – winning one of three new seats for the PC Party of Ontario – and was the party’s critic for rural affairs.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:35 pm
by Ale's What Cures Ya
Let's hope this guy gets the leadership nod.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:58 pm
by kmallett
He's got my vote!
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:37 pm
by Bytowner
Hillier is a libertarian whack job (well libertarian up to the point of gay marriage, then he magically turns into a raging social conservative). I'll drink Keith's for the rest of my days before this idiot becomes the premier of Ontario.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:43 pm
by Hamilton Brian
Bytowner wrote:Hillier is a libertarian whack job (well libertarian up to the point of gay marriage, then he magically turns into a raging social conservative). I'll drink Keith's for the rest of my days before this idiot becomes the premier of Ontario.
I won't go so far as to drink Keith's for the rest of my days, but the stance on ONE issue, meaningful to only a small segment of the population, doesn't justify a carte blanche ticket to the leadership desk.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:01 pm
by SteelbackGuy
He's a bit of an odd duck, and I don't think he's got a chance against Hudak.
But I'd never vote conservative anyway, so neither get my vote, hehe
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:24 pm
by Queef
SteelbackGuy wrote:But I'd never vote conservative anyway
kind of comment that explains so much about canadian politics.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:54 pm
by SteelbackGuy
Queef wrote:SteelbackGuy wrote:But I'd never vote conservative anyway
kind of comment that explains so much about canadian politics.
Yeah I don't really want to get too far off track here, but they aren't really in line with my values and my thinking, so I'd not cast a vote for them......but that can change with time too. And I was raised by a Marxist mom, and a Blue Tory father. Go figure.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:01 pm
by Queef
SteelbackGuy wrote:Queef wrote:SteelbackGuy wrote:But I'd never vote conservative anyway
kind of comment that explains so much about canadian politics.
Yeah I don't really want to get too far off track here, but they aren't really in line with my values and my thinking, so I'd not cast a vote for them......but that can change with time too. And I was raised by a Marxist mom, and a Blue Tory father. Go figure.
Fair enough. Usually that thinking shouldn't be as black and white as people make it out to be.
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:20 pm
by Tapsucker
There has got to be a better way to get rid of the TBS monopoly. Free enterprise should not automatically require a return to the stone age.
Besides it's a little incongruous since the TBS is just the kind of monopoly on corporate welfare the conservatives so treasure.
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:23 pm
by $
Tapsucker wrote:There has got to be a better way to get rid of the TBS monopoly. Free enterprise should not automatically require a return to the stone age.
The stone age was not free enterprise. Free enterprise brings us out of the stone age.
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:28 pm
by Tapsucker
$ wrote:
The stone age was not free enterprise. Free enterprise brings us out of the stone age.
That was not my point. My point was that to get free enterprise, we should not have to return to a social conservative backwater with spiteful tribes out to undermine each other in the name of ideology.
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:37 pm
by icemachine
Tapsucker wrote:$ wrote:
The stone age was not free enterprise. Free enterprise brings us out of the stone age.
That was not my point. My point was that to get free enterprise, we should not have to return to a social conservative backwater with spiteful tribes out to undermine each other in the name of ideology.
Stone Age? I thought that was High School
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:57 pm
by cirrosis
corporations control the government, the government controls alcohol distribution, figure it out.
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:29 am
by $
cirrosis wrote:corporations control the government
The beer corporations do? Rather odd they only do so in Ontario...
Tapsucker wrote:That was not my point. My point was that to get free enterprise, we should not have to return to a social conservative backwater
ahhh... agreed. I don't really think the PC's really are much into free enterprise anyway, mostly just talk.