Ontario quietly moving ahead with plan to sell beer in corner stores

declined to make him available for an interview, or to detail the results of those consultations or the state of any negotiations with the Beer Store’s beer-industry owners. A spokesperson, Emily Hogeveen, said the province supports “meaningful change” for alcohol sales in the province but that it is just “one of many priorities” for the government.

The OPHA’s executive director, John Atkinson, said the association declined to take part in consultations in April when the government required a non-disclosure agreement that would have forced the OPHA to keep its advice secret.in May instead, laying out the research and urging the government to change course, especially given Ontario’s recent moves to allow alcohol in more grocery stores and for takeout and delivery from thousands of restaurants.

Putting beer and wine in corner stores was a centrepiece of the PC Party’s 2018 election campaign, which also pledged “buck-a-beer” prices. But the government all but abandoned the corner-store promise just a year into its first mandate after a standoff with the multinational brewers behind the Beer Store, which threatened litigation as sources warned that breaking the agreement could cost the government up to $1-billion in compensation.

Dave Bryans, the chief executive officer of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, has been pushing for beer sales for years, as a way to revive an industry still struggling with the decline of tobacco use. He said the government had shared little about its current plans.

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