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EDITORIAL: Provincial government gets it right on liquor law change

BC Liberal government changes liquor laws to allow craft booze producers to also serve others' products.
Yellow Dog Brewing, Port Moody
Port Moody's Yellow Dog Brewing and other craft booze producers will be able to serve alcohol products from other such businesses under new B.C. liquor laws.

We know it’s hard to believe — considering the Christy Clark government’s despicable handling of the health care firings scandal; the scathing indictment by a judge of Ministry of Children and Family Development social workers’ actions in a case that put a child into the hands of an abuser; the province’s laughable record of “open government;” and the Clark-mandated clusterfudge of a transportation referendum, as well as her government’s ongoing hands-on/hands-off approach to transportation in Metro Vancouver — but the BC Liberal government did something, well, right this week.

Attorney General Suzanne Anton announced Tuesday a change to booze laws to allow wineries, distilleries and breweries — such as Port Moody’s popular Yellow Dog Brewing and Moody Ales — with licensed lounges to sell their patrons liquor those establishments didn’t produce.

Craft Distillers Guild of BC president Tyler Dyck said the move will allow craft producers to cross-promote one another, helping the small businesses the Libs say they love.

How shockingly common sense of the BC Liberals. Who knew they had it in them?