Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy's letter ordered steep LCBO markups that would have sharply raised alcohol prices

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The plan to hike booze prices in Ontario didn’t originate with the LCBO, as first thought, but with Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy.

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A letter sent by Bethlenfalvy to LCBO Chair Carmine Nigro on Oct. 15 laid out in detail exactly what the provincial liquor monopoly would be charging as part of a new “wholesale” pricing program.

After the restaurant, bar and retail industries erupted in anger, the Ford government tried to make it seem that the proposed Jan. 1 price hikes were the result of the LCBO going rogue. They delayed the changes until April........

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