I'd also add that Ford's efforts to reduce beer prices and his broad approach to weed sales are certainly more 'liberal' than what the Liberals planned (though less dependent on government, of course).
Very much more liberal (the ganja, not the beer). The previous government's law on marijuana was a sham legalisation and still treated people like imbecile children not worthy of self-determination in the context of their own faculties.
Also, being liberal is not necessarily related to dependence on government for anything. Especially not when it comes to individual freedoms and the right of people to do with themselves as they please.
The "attempt" to lower beer prices by this government was a pathetic and illiberal ploy to garner the votes of fools. It did nothing and had no chance of doing anything to lower beer prices in anywhere near a non-negligible amount. I say it was illiberal because it used the apparatus of the state to try to bribe businesses to sell product at a loss for no reason other than to fool the foolish.
A liberal approach to beer prices would be a reduction in the tax on alcohol and a liberalisation (the word is used in this sense for a reason) of alcohol sales (man, if they ever liberalise drugs safer than alcohol, we'll all be winners).
Anyway, I give them -10 points for the beer shenanigans and +10 points for the marijuana law reform......which brings us to me having my opinion of this government as far as drugs policy goes at the same place as when they started their grand experiment in......Doug's ego massage, or whatever the hell this is.
.....though, wait, if we throw in their revised safe injection site policy, we can add another +10 points and whoah, this government is more liberal (and rational!) in terms of drugs policy than the last.
.........ok, what's going on here?
