Let's start with nationalizing Canada Post and stop treating that essential service like it was a company.
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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Canada Post is a crown corporation and is owned by the Canadian government, created to ensure it's financial security and independence. This is just the rich trying to convince the public it is insolvent and should be sold to the private sector for pennies on the dollar to fuck over Canadians and provide shittier service for exponentially more money.
It's already a crown corp, meaning it's already nationalized.
I agree, until Canada Post is safe and Canada's new Housing crown corp is established and building a decent track record, I'm not even going to entertain the idea of buying up more of the private sector, which often just ends up being a government bailout rewarding bad behavior. Let Tim Hortons sink or swim on their own. Also fuck the TFW program in particular. That is all.
An American-owned, bottom of the barrel fast food chain serving frozen donuts and mediocre sandwiches. Their coffee turned to shit 10 years ago because they mismanaged their vendors and lost their supplier to McDonald’s.
They hire practically no Canadians and exploit the Temporary Foreign Worker program like no other restaurant business.
There’s nothing left there that’s worth buying or saving. We’re at least 15 years too late for that.
I was actually in one a few weeks ago and had a “flatbread pizza”. It was worse than the equivalent pizza I ordered on an Air Canada flight. But at least it was a couple bucks cheaper.
Yeah let's save a failing brand that's been awful for decades instead of doing something useful!
What happens to nationalized locations overseas, do these now function as quasi-embassies? How is pay organized for foreign citizens working at international locations, Canadian tax dollars? Will menu changes be televised on CSPAN from the Canadian House of Commons?
I don't have a plan for the first questions but yes menu changes will be televised on CSPAN. And yes we will waste time on it in the house like we do with name calling etc. The poutine made at tims will be free of all poutine crimes.
This is why you are being down voted. Stop wasting peoples time with your nonsense.
This is such a stupid thread.
This is not nonsense. How did I waste your time?
If the cheese curds aren’t from Quebec, they’re sparkling fries with gravy.
Those downvoting, please tell me why you think this idea is bad. When I present this idea to people irl they say wow why is nobody really pushing for this.
Tim hortons going downhill is such an obvious stain on our country and people seem to just let it slide.
The only valid critique i've heard is "that's dumb"
We should be nationalizing infrastructure where having a single vendor (ie. monopoly) makes sense.
Cafés are a great example where many small businesses are ideal.
Let Tim Horton's fail and let small independent cafés flood the space.
You still haven't answered, why save a private business? Why bail out whatever international private equity by buying Tim's from them? Why would that every be worth tax payer money?
It is dumb. It's a shitty american donut and coffee shop and you want to spend public money on it to..... Save face?
It's not american though, it's owned by brazil, and it's only shitty since it was bought by them
It’s owned by Restaurant Brands International, which is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
It wasn't ever good. You suffer from false nostalgia.
Making your national identity a shitty coffee shop is stupid. Labatts Blue is a better cultural icon, let's nationalize that and purchase it from InBev.
Because coffee and doughnuts are not an essential service. And there's no way I'd pay taxes to support such a business. Unless it's main purpose was to provide free meals to everyone in Canada, then that world go towards ending food insecurity.