Making of wine, beer and spirits to benefit with new law if all provinces allow it.

“The changes allow individuals to move beer and spirits from one province to another for personal use. Under the liquors act, alcohol must be imported by a provincial liquor board or other agency authorized by the province to sell alcohol. This provision has not changed with the amendments.”

New changes announced today by the Federal Government will allow people to buy beer and spirits  in provinces where they don’t live and bring them home for personal use.  The changes were announced in Penticton Friday by the Minister of National Revenue Kerry-Lynne Findlay and Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Dan Albas.
“We are a trading nation.  Canada has trade agreements with 10 countries and is negotiating with more than 60 others around the world, but we need to make trade easier within our own borders,” says Findlay.  “This is why our Government has eliminated federal restrictions allowing Canadians to take beer and spirits across provincial lines, just like we did in 2012 for wine.”

The federal Government is now encouraging all provinces to support the measure and enact the necessary laws to facilitate it.  That’s because the movement, sale, purchase and possession of wine, beer and spirits is governed by provincial liquor laws within each individual province.  With the previous wine amendment in 2012, only British Columbia and Manitoba changed their laws to allow personal importation of wine.