Buy 'Canadian' Instead! (Except, What Does It Mean To Be Canadian?)
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The stores are not on the hook. Alcohol in Canada is a government monopoly in most provinces, where inventory is ordered by the individual stores from a government-approved list of suppliers, then purchased by the provincial governments, distributed to stores and sold to consumers, restaurants and bars at set prices. Ridiculous prices. The government, and by extension taxpayers, will be on the hook for this idiocy.
That used to be how it is here in Ontario, but any convenience store or grocery store can sell alcohol now. You don't have to go to the beer store for beer, or the LCBO for wine and spirits.
Some of the regulation you're talking about still exists for restaurants and the like, but any person can buy alcohol in just about any store provided they are over 21.
True, but my understanding is the alcohol being sold is still distributed by the government: it's just that Ford gave other stores the right to stock and sell it instead of just LCBO and TBS. In the province where I live, supermarkets have a booze section, but they have to buy the stock from the same distributer that supplies our government-run liquor stores.
Spirits too? I left Canada because of Covid, but pre-2020 it was only wine/beer in stores.