You can't have it both ways. He said he doesn't need a license to sell alcohol, anyway, because he's operating a private club. We're not a public place. They can think whatever they like, I can't control that. But we were minding our own business, what we were doing was amongst ourselves.
Bartenders serve alcoholic drinks in exchange for cash.
That itself would be an offence under current liquor laws, but police require substantially more evidence than hearsay under the Nunavut Liquor Act to proceed with charges. Monette, who works with the RCMP's drug detachment. The Explorers Club is merely the most blatant manifestation of widespread contraband alcohol sales in the new territorial capital, police say. Every second taxi driver is selling liquor, and the only way we can get them is if someone goes and buys a bottle and comes to us and says, 'Here's the bottle, I just bought it off him five minutes ago,' and they're prepared to go and testify. Police complain that the wording of the liquor control legislation, inherited from the Northwest Territories, is so vague that it's impossible to enforce.