BC government hiring teenagers to buy booze at liquor stores

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BC government hiring teenagers to buy booze at liquor stores
Anyone who sells alcohol to them will be fined
Jesse Johnston Feb 18, 2011 14:42:39 PM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Part of the province's crackdown on liquor stores selling booze to minors includes an undercover operation involving teenagers.

The province is hiring 12 minors, as young as 16-years-old, to go into liquor stores and buy booze. If they're successful, the person who sold it to them will be fined.

Erin Sikora, with the union representing government liquor store employees, says she doesn't have any concerns about issues like entrapment. "We are confident that the public stores record on ID checks, which is consistently better than private stores, will improve under this policy."

An audit done two years ago suggests people who appear to be under 25 only get checked 56 per cent of the time

satil

Finally, gov got someone with a working brain

zoids

Next you'll see CRA hire accountants/finance planner to lure people into their tax evasion traps.