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Originally Posted by Kavvy
Ceci is starting to annoy me however, we need to be careful in over pushing small risks as then we are not allowing for new ideas and innovation and we will surely fail as a province.
Politicians are expected to try new ideas which have manageable risks.
Putting on a tax to out of province breweries ended up hurting jobs in Alberta. This isn't good, and maybe it is time to end the policy. However, is this only short term? Will this create a market where Albertians will invest in new brewers in Alberta and create more jobs then those lost? Investment takes time to react to market conditions. The long game may not be there yet.
Then there is the court case, which may make everything a moot point.
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This would have only made sense if it was imposed on Brewery's that have no Alberta presence at all. Instead it ended up kicking Alberta jobs in the nuts.
But at the end of the day the pure out of province beers are usually more expensive anyways mainly due to transport costs, so Alberta based beers should be able to thrive without government intervention.
When you impose an unconstitutional tax and then run to court with a fallacy you're embarrassing yourself.
Lawyer - "You're honor, we're just imposing something similar to what Ontario does with non ontario based beer"
Judge - "Yeah no they don't what else do you have"
Lawyer shuffling his feet and staring at his shoelaces
Lawyer "Nothing"
Opposition lawyers cracking beers - "Boolya"