11/2/2023 0 Comments Ford as built data urlBuck-a-beer was a stunt with a very short shelf life. It’s not, and Ford has shown no sign of wanting to make it such. What about drunk driving? What about increased risk of liver disease? One educated onlooker remarked that “increasing access to cheap alcohol” was certain to aggravate these problems, which would no doubt be true if alcohol in Ontario was actually cheap. Policies on the sale of alcohol that have operated in civilized countries for decades, without producing whole populations of slobbering drunks, are still viewed as far too permissive for some still-active corners of Puritan Ontario. The neo-revolution Ford introduced in his government’s first budget produced a predictable cry of horror from those who consider themselves more qualified to dictate public taste. Plenty of imperious bores drink beer, they just like to establish lines of demarcation over which sort is acceptable, and which isn’t, because nothing says “progressive” like an arbitrary standard that divides the respectable from the riffraff. But that’s the whole thing with being an imperious bore.
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