After having lived in Australia (state of Victoria) for a little bit I'm FIRMLY convinced that there is ZERO benefit to the government-controlled monopoly of liquor sales we have here.

There were all kinds of different alcohol retailers in Australia.  Some focused purely on low price for those that wanted that.  Others focused on excellent selection and great service (definitely superior to the LCBO) for those that wanted that.  Others still were specialty stores offering phenomenal selection of a given product (wine, scotch, beer, etc.).  They really put the power of choice back in the hands of consumers were it belongs, not some government employee telling us how they think we need to shop.

If Ontario truly needs more revenue from alcohol sales they can raise the taxes, but lying to us and telling us that we need to be forced to shop at the LCBO so that they can tax us by means of LCBO profits is just insulting.