You may be aware that in Ontario, for example, we have one of the most sophisticated regulatory regimes in the world. It is quite excellent. When people go in to buy alcohol, they're carded strictly to age 25; the bars close at 2 a.m. and don't open again until noon; people who have bars that are overcrowded or over-serve their clients can have their licenses suspended or revoked; and we tax alcohol massively. There are no shortages of regulations and yet alcohol addiction is still one of the largest problems we have in our society and sales keep going up. We also know there are hundreds of millions of dollars, in Ontario alone, of bootleg alcohol sold in after-hours clubs, etc. Regulation are not solving the problem, would you agree?
On October 28th, 2014. See this statement in context.