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Ontario PCs make $40B in platform promises, pledge to axe floor price for alcohol

Published Feb 24, 2025 at 5:54pm

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Ontario PCs make $40B in platform promises, pledge to axe floor price for alcohol

Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford makes an announcement in Toronto on Monday February 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have released their platform today, with three days until election day, and it contains $40 billion in promises plus a proposal to get rid of the minimum retail price for liquor.

Minimum prices for spirits vary based on volume and alcohol content and are indexed to inflation, and the minimum retail price for a 750 millilitre bottle of vodka is currently set to rise this weekend to $31.15.

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has not made any public announcements about his alcohol promise, unlike in 2018 when he made setting the price floor for beer at $1 — or Buck-a-Beer — a central part of his campaign.

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