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“For a mid-sized brewery like ours, we pay $61 million in tax every year, and our net earnings are around $4 million. What that really means is the government makes 15 times more money on our business than we do.”

Waterloo Brewing CEO George Croft is one of some 250 organizations calling for Ottawa to roll back the latest tax increase on beer, citing the impact on bars, restaurants and consumers.