CAMPBELLTON, N.B. – A private investigator says at least two-thirds of the people buying beer in a Quebec border town are from New Brunswick and it’s an everyday occurrence.
John Beckingham was hired by the defence for a New Brunswick man charged with illegally importing alcohol from Quebec.
Gerard Comeau of Tracadie is fighting the charge on constitutional grounds.
Beckingham says Quebec stores located in Pointe-a-la-Croix, just across the bridge from Campbellton, have dedicated about 90 per cent of their floor space to beer that is sold at about half the price charged in New Brunswick.
Comeau was stopped by police in Campbellton in October 2012 with 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor that he had bought in Quebec.
Section 134 of the New Brunswick Liquor Control Act limits anyone from having more than 12 pints of beer not sold by a provincially licensed liquor outlet.
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