“Opening up interprovincial trade of alcohol would have a very detrimental effect on the breweries that are here in Newfoundland and Labrador,” Mr. Farrell said in an interview Friday. “There’s no upside. You’d flood the market with trucked-in beer.”

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    and getting things off the island is expensive. Medium sized brewers from Ontario and Quebec will eat their lunch.

    But isn’t shipping thins in the island also expensive? Why would medium sized brewers be at an advantage?

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      They’re coming from larger markets, so already have a larger sales base, large income flow, and reduced costs from producing at a larger scale.

      Y’all come from large provinces, don’t ya? Because none of you are talking like you’ve ever seen a bigger neighbour wipe out your local industry. Or paidnany attention while Walmart and Amazon decimated things.

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        Hm, maybe I had a different idea of what “medium” meant. I thought it was referring to brewers that had smaller production than Molson.

        Because none of you are talking like you’ve ever seen a bigger neighbour wipe out your local industry. Or paidnany attention while Walmart and Amazon decimated things.

        Not sure what I said pressed your buttons, I just wanted to make sense of how a medium company would have an advantage against a bigger company in terms of logistic costs.