XPost: bc.politics, vic.general, van.general   
   From: ConsR@minority.gov   
      
   Has proven true.  They're selling to minors to make money.   
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   Posted: May 22, 2012   
      
   Underage teen buys liquor at 3 B.C. stores   
      
   CBC News investigation shows little has changed since similar 2010 probe   
      
   Some private and government liquor stores in Metro Vancouver are selling to   
   teens despite   
   promises to toughen screening for underage customers, a CBC News investigation   
   has found.   
   High school student Danielle Kyei, who at 17 is two years too young to legally   
   buy alcohol in   
   B.C, agreed to participate in the investigation.   
      
   She was sold wine in two private North Vancouver retail outlets without being   
   asked for proof   
   of age.   
      
   “It was very easy,” Kyei said.   
      
   The same private retailers — Everything Wine and Avalon Beer and Wine — also   
   sold wine to an   
   underage buyer in a CBC News investigation in October 2010, and vowed at the   
   time to increase   
   their vigilance.   
      
   “If I can walk in and grab something in five minutes, then clearly they   
   haven't changed," said   
   Kyei.   
      
   Retailers caught selling to minors can be fined $7,500 or handed a 10-to-14   
   day suspensions.   
      
   Government conducts tests   
   After the 2010 investigation, the B.C. government also started using teenage   
   secret shoppers to   
   test the system   
      
   A recent test involving one quarter of all private and public liquor outlets   
   in the province   
   turned up one sale to a minor at a government store, but 32 to minors at   
   private stores.   
      
   That's a failure rate of two per cent for government outlets compared to 18   
   per cent for   
   private stores.   
      
   However, in the latest test by CBC News Kyei was able buy a bottle   
   unchallenged at a North   
   Vancouver government liquor store on Westview Drive.   
      
   When contacted by CBC News and told of the test results, a representative for   
   Avalon Beer and   
   Wine said the company will be talking to staff.   
      
   An Everything Wine spokesperson was concerned about the failure of its staff   
   to spot the   
   underage shopper, using words like “inexcusable,” “embarrassed” and   
   “horrified.”   
      
   "We've got to do a better job," the spokesperson said.   
      
   The provincial minister responsible for B.C. liquor stores, Rich Coleman,   
   issued a statement   
   late Tuesday, saying the CBC's findings would be investigated.   
      
   "The province checks on all complaints of liquor being sold to a minor and   
   will be following up   
   on the stores tested by the CBC," said Coleman. Kyei handed over all the wine   
   she bought to a   
   CBC News staff member.   
      
      
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   to public office.   
      
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