Good Times! Canada Ups Limits Inter-Provincial Alcohol Sales

Canada, Good Times! Canada Ups Limits Inter-Provincial Alcohol Sales

The country that is poised to legalize recreational marijuana nationally soon is rethinking other restrictions including the personal limits on the amount of beer you can purchase and carry across their provincial borders.

Here’s the deal…

Just as with the states in the US everyone every one of Canada’s ten provinces has their own set of regulations that effect alcohol sales in their region… It’s primarily a taxation thing but beer, wine and spirits prices can vary from province to province.

And that helps to explain why some provinces put limits on what you can purchase in one province and transport to another.

But now with cannabis legalization just around the corner things are getting more liberal on the alcohol side of things as well in Canada.

On July 19th “the premiers of all 10 Canadian provinces and territories agreed to double the current personal allowance to six cases of beer, two cases of wine and six liters of spirits.”

According to The Drinks Business, Alberta and Manitoba are currently the only provinces that have no limit on the amount of liquor that can be brought in for personal consumption.

Canada, Good Times! Canada Ups Limits Inter-Provincial Alcohol Sales“All the rest had varying limits with New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories and Newfoundland having extremely low limits meaning a standardized limit across the country will have a much greater effect there.”

So good…right?

Now in addition to Canadians soon being able to bong-hit their way down the highway, the provinces have doubled down, as well as standardized, the amount of beer, wine and spirits that residents can move from province to province, putting an end to sometimes draconian consequences…

Manitoba premier Brian Pallister told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that bringing even one beer more into a province than is allowed can result in a C$5,000 fine.

“That’s the kind of antiquity we shouldn’t have in Canada. It restricts the free flow of goods across our borders.”

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