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…The owner of the Rio, Corinne Lea, has been told that because she has a liquor licence, she is not permitted to screen films at the cinema—even if Lea agrees to ban liquor sales when movies are shown.
Today, NDP MLA Jenny Kwan said at a news conference that this could easily be fixed if the cabinet would pass an order-in-council to allow the Rio to serve alcohol for events, and not allow booze sales when movies are being shown.
So why Clark—the queen of jobs—want to do this?
I would suggest it’s because her own high-paying job is far more important to her than those of the cinema’s employees….
{snippety doo-dah}
…. The reality is that Clark’s B.C. Liberal party has to win a by-election in the middle of the province’s Bible Belt in July…
{snippety doodle-dandy}
….The problem for Clark is that if she loosens the liquor rules at East Broadway and Commercial Drive, the holy rollers in the Fraser Valley will seize on this as evidence that the premier is another one of those godless secular humanists. And they’ll be more likely to back the Conservative candidate, criminology professor John Martin, in Chilliwack-Hope.
Clark can’t allow that to happen because it would lead to the death of the B.C. Liberals. So she is prepared to let an East Vancouver small business fry to keep her premiership on the front burner….
