AUDITOR SLAMS QUÉBEC ALCOHOL MONOPOLY
November 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
AN AUDITOR-general report has criticised the Societé des Alcools du Québec (SAQ) one of Canada's provincial liquor monopolies for illegally raising wine prices by almost 10% last year. A decrease in the value of the Euro against the Canadian dollar should have meant price cuts for consumers, but instead they paid CDN$8 million over a set pricing system, with the extra money going to provincial government coffers. SAQ president and CEO Sylvain Toutant "neglected the tasks" he should have carried out, said Québec ...
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