MADD is madly wrong about private liquor stores

25 years later the arguments against private liquor retail are still worn out

Photo: NL Liquor Corporation

Mothers Against Drunk Driving CEO Andrew Murie thinks that putting government-owned liquor stores in the hands of private owners will cause more drunkenness, underaged drinking, and higher consumer prices.

He told CBC that last week. Privatising liquor stores would be bad.

In November 1996, NAPE boss Dave Curtis used exactl…