LCBO thefts surge in Toronto – I’m surprised it took this long to happen December 29, 2018,
In this blog post I’ll be referring to the following CBC and Toronto Star articles which you can read for yourself by clicking the link below:
As a resident of Toronto, I have to be brutally honest when I say that I’m surprised and feel truly blessed that Toronto has so many great people, I’m actually shocked of how good this multicultural experiment has worked thus far. A lot of credit has to be given to Canada’s Immigration office, prior to Trudeau’s cabinet. But you see there’s a problem to socialism that needs to be discussed, and this topic has to be discussed in its proper context. When you centralize something such as Liquor and leave it primarily in the hands of the government, events like these are bound to occur, I’m not sure how long this will last, I suspect this problem will be fixed sooner than later, being that LCBO employees paychecks, as well as their financial well being, is dependent on this price controlled industry being profitable for Government.
As many people reading this know, I’m not a big fan of Crown Corporations whether they be Federal or Provincial, these entities often create problems that otherwise wouldn’t exist. I’m sure most people who are Pro-Crown Corporation would argue Crown Corporations prevent problems from arising, which is a fair argument, but the issues surrounding crown corporations always revolve around the jobs or industries that aren’t created because of their existence.
For Ontarians who haven’t travelled outside of Ontario, find it strange to smell beer in local Walmart or to walk into a convenience store and see bottles of liquor on store shelves, what’s also odd for most Ontarians is to see the prices discrepancies between the price of liquor in Ontario vs. the price of liquor in Liberal/Democrat-controlled U.S States like New York. Canadians are price gauged everywhere and it’s one of the reasons why in Canada according to OECD data Canada’s wage growth has been stagnant.
OECD Report Warns Of ‘Unprecedented Wage Stagnation’ In Developed Countries
One of the reasons wage growth in Canada has been stagnant while prices go up revolve around Crown Corporations. It’s important to understand that prices in Canada should have come down considerably, the reason prices can’t come down in Canada is because our public sectors continue to grow. Crown Corporations aren’t included as Public Sectors, they’re not considered public sector workers. Everybody knows crown corporations are Public Servants, but when we read the data regarding the size of government, you might notice that Crown Corporations are often not included when they should be.
Individuals who work for Crown Corporations often have Paychecks that exceed what they’d make in the private sector and being that there’s no incentive to keep Crown Corporations small these entities often spend more than a small business person would spend on their business, because after all chances are if a Crown Corporation goes through financial hardships the Provincial or Federal Government will bail them out. Plus in the instance of LCBO, unlike a small or medium sized business store owner, there’s no incentive for the employees to risk their lives, their health, their well-being for Crown Corporation? Let’s be honest here, I sure as hell don’t think an LCBO employee should put his/her life in jeopardy to product liquid drugs? Furthermore, why should the Toronto Police waste precious resources hunting down Liquor thieves? That’s LCBO’s problem, or is it a city or Province-wide problem now? Hmmm. An interesting question isn’t it?
In the U.S if you go to most Private Store owners who sell liquor many of them already have systems in place to prevent theft. Now, to us entitled privileged Ontarians we see some of these procedures as inconvenient to us, however, these systems keep prices down for U.S customers and also prevent LCBO theft surges as being a province-wide problem that might result in LCBO raising prices even more.
Gun control is often a topic that divides people because law-abiding responsible gun owners are told they have to suffer and pay for something criminals engage in, making matters worse is the assumption that government is smarter than everyone else, it’s the same concept here, it’s the reason why I don’t like the idea of Crown Corporations monopolizing entire industries, not only does it cost us more money, it also prevents less expensive solutions from being created. I suspect this LCBO problem will be remedied by the Ontario government finding a way to spend more money and charging higher prices to responsible alcohol consumers.
Interesting times ahead