{"id":120803,"date":"2018-08-17T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/enfin-un-veritable-plan-dallegement-reglementaire-pour-les-depanneurs\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:48:49","slug":"enfin-un-veritable-plan-dallegement-reglementaire-pour-les-depanneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/enfin-un-veritable-plan-dallegement-reglementaire-pour-les-depanneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes! A Real Plan From Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a great development today for the convenience store industry in Quebec, one that don&#8217;t see often!<\/p>\n<p>The Quebec government unveiled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economie.gouv.qc.ca\/fileadmin\/contenu\/publications\/administratives\/plans_action\/PAG-allegement-commerce-detail\/pa_allegement_detail.pdf\">regulatory streamlining plan (click here for its French version)<\/a> for the retail industry that includes a host of exciting measures to ease paperwork for retail businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Among the announced measures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing the license renewal periods (eg, an annual license could become valid for three years);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating of an interdepartmental committee that will tackle regulatory relief on a permanent basis;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Standardizing license renewal dates and facilitate their management for an owner operating multiple stores;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Possibly expanding the hours of alcohol sales and to increase the minimum price of beer more rapidly;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Possibly raising the retailer compensation per cans and bottle recycled, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these fantastic measures, which are still yet to come, correspond to longstanding demands made repeatedly by the industry.<\/p>\n<p>They are finally fully recognized and now figure officially on the government&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>So this is a great day for the retail industry, which is kind of moving from the most neglected economic sector to one that is finally getting the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all retail associations and government policymakers who worked on this plan, hoping of course that it survives the upcoming election!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a great development today for the convenience store industry in Quebec, one that don&#8217;t see often! The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":120734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[1287],"class_list":["post-120803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-depstars","tag-regulatory-streamlining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/plan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}