Today on the CTV evening news Paul Bliss reported that on February 5 the Liquor Control Board of Ontario will begin charging a deposit on your favourite wine and liquor bottles.

There is no way of proving whether a deposit was paid on the bottles, so there is a chance that some customers could profit.

David Caplan, Minister of Public Infrastructure, says Ontarians are law-abiding and he is confident that customers will not save up the bottles they didn't get a deposit on and return them to the Beer Store on that Monday. Caplan says it will be an offence to return those bottles.

The government is placing a limit on returns, you can only bring back one hundred twenty bottles at a time, any more and you will have to apply for a permit.

Tim Hudak says Premier Dalton McGuinty must have made the plan up on the back of a napkin, the plan to return bottles purchased at the L. C. B. O. to the Beer Store doesn't make sense.

The Beer Store is bringing in extra staff to prevent line-ups. The government estimates the plan will keep eighty million bottles and cans out of landfills and will be worth the effort.

I will be watching the news very closely on that day, I expect to see many people bringing in the limited 120 bottles in various communities. Since I don't consume alcohol I have no bottles to save. Would you save up bottles for the ten or twenty cents you could get for them?