N.B. to appeal court’s beer ruling

The New Brunswick government will appeal a court ruling in April that effectively threw out limits on cross-border alcohol imports. Gerard Comeau, who was charged with illegally importing 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor from a Quebec border town in 2012, had all charges dismissed. Beer near the border in Quebec is about half the price charged in New Brunswick, but the Liquor Control Act prohibits anyone in New Brunswick from having more than 12 pints of beer that wasn’t purchased through a provincial liquor store.