"Don't lie to me": Ezra Levant confronts Tim Hortons president over #BoycottTims
Ever since Tim Hortons insulted Canadian workers last week, their corporate executives have gone into hiding.
They ripped up an ad contract with a pipeline company called Enbridge — suggesting that Canadians who work in oil and gas aren't good enough for them. But then they wouldn’t defend their decision, or even explain it.
An apology? No chance. They went silent. Even as tens of thousands of their loyal customers asked, “why do you disrespect me?"
So I drove to the Tim Hortons head office in Oakville — armed with a petition signed by more than 8,500 Canadians demanding an apology from Tim Hortons.
At first, the executives refused to come down. They pretended they weren’t there.
Then they pretended they weren’t available.
Fine — I just sat and waited. And waited.
And when they realized I wasn’t going anywhere, the president of Tim Hortons Canada himself, David Clanachan, finally came down.
Watch what happened next -- and tell me what you think in the comments!
Ezra Levant
Rebel Commander
Ezra Levant is the founder and owner of Rebel News and the host of The Ezra Levant Show. He is the author of multiple best-selling books, including Ethical Oil, The Libranos, China Virus, and most recently, Trudeau's Secret Plan.
COMMENTS
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Alan Beaulieu commented 2015-06-16 13:45:47 -0400The real disappointment is in the anemic response by what passes for Albertans these days. We have been diluted by too many Upper Canadians. Alberta as we knew it is gone. -
Jimmy Da Silva commented 2015-06-15 12:19:53 -0400And like I said before – this is already over. No one cares. The boycott that lasted a few days has died. Back to normal for Tim Hortons.
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Christoph Dollis commented 2015-06-14 16:49:55 -0400“Nobody else has trouble pasting links.”
You’re a dummy, Liza. -
Brian Sumner commented 2015-06-12 11:28:27 -0400Being a retired energy industry employee I’m pretty sensitive to this stuff. Good work Ezra. I’m boycotting the Brazilian owned tim’s forever now. The attitude of the coo dave clanahgan only made matters worse. To hell with them. -
Michael Crowell commented 2015-06-12 08:58:21 -0400I am gone forever Tim Horton. -
Rob MacGregor commented 2015-06-12 00:55:47 -0400Not in a million years would Ron Joyce’s Tim’s disrespect Canadian workers the way these clowns did. Sad performance Tim’s. Good work Ezra. -
Jimmy Da Silva commented 2015-06-12 00:34:09 -0400Liza,
Yes I do.
You don’t? Why not? -
liza faucher commented 2015-06-12 00:26:17 -0400Jimmy I didn’t ask you if you slept well at night. I asked you if you felt safe in the world you are prepared to accept.
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Jimmy Da Silva commented 2015-06-12 00:22:23 -0400Liza,
I sleep very well – thank you for your concern. -
Robert Watson commented 2015-06-11 23:39:36 -0400The fool is known by his multitude of words. Blah blah blah. Repeating the same diatribes. Jimmy Da Twit. -
liza faucher commented 2015-06-11 23:39:30 -0400I hope you feel safe in the bed you make for yourself Jimmy.
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Robert Watson commented 2015-06-11 23:36:24 -0400JImmy . just shut up.You sound like a left wing nutcase.
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Jimmy Da Silva commented 2015-06-11 23:05:45 -0400Liza,
LOL at your view of Ezra Levant. The guy is the media equivalent of an ambulance chaser. He is an attention whore who looks for controversy in everything and if there isn’t any controversy, he will happily manufacture it regardless of the facts and has no problem lying as long as he gets the attention that he so craves. -
tim fucile commented 2015-06-11 22:14:44 -0400so that fat jerk doesn’t care about canadian customers ah?i say no more foreign coffee hello Robbins coffee!good day 2nd cup.
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liza faucher commented 2015-06-11 21:49:10 -0400Ezra doesn’t pretend to be perfect, and when he makes a mistake he apologises. That makes him a better man in my book. Ezra goes out on a limb, places the rest of us are too cowardly to venture into, certainly not the mainstream media, so occasionally he may get himself in trouble. Understandably. He is still more of a patriot than any of the rest of us for going there, (for us). He puts the main stream media to shame.
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liza faucher commented 2015-06-11 21:41:03 -0400Nobody else has trouble pasting links.
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Christoph Dollis commented 2015-06-11 18:07:33 -0400It’s 2015. Why don’t you accept html tags, for goodness sakes? Or at least put a notice here about no html tags, and what markup rules you do accept.
SERIOUSLY, REBEL MEDIA, DOES THAT NOT MAKE SENSE? -
Christoph Dollis commented 2015-06-11 18:05:42 -0400I see what Jimmy Da Silva was referring to re: Ezra lying, or was it something else?
<a href=“”http://www.ezralevant.com/apology-to-richard-warman/“>http://www.ezralevant.com/apology-to-richard-warman/”>Apology to Richard Warman</a> -
Glenn Puddister commented 2015-06-11 17:05:59 -0400Now Erza I know im just a dumb NFLD from the east . But two things came to mind when this story broke . Tim H needs . to look at themselves before blindly attack Enbridge Can you imagine if Tims drive threws where closed went drive threw free no more long lines of idiling cars you have got to go in to get your coffee. Second all those pilipa workers that work out west in their stores because of the oil and gas sector bet they didn’t think of that. Its what happens when you are baseing your decision on emontion first before the facts are in. It what they do
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Kelvin Grabowsky commented 2015-06-11 13:18:59 -0400Liberals love to live like the ostrich ( inhale the dirt)
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Jimmy Da Silva commented 2015-06-11 12:03:42 -0400Conservatives love hyperbole and the fear of the slippery slope. It’s over and this has already been forgotten.
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Kelvin Grabowsky commented 2015-06-11 10:34:33 -0400Canadian decency? Or Canadian doormats!!!!!
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Martin Smith commented 2015-06-11 09:26:50 -0400Ezra Levant has some blame for this.
I bet some South American suit bitterly remembers : “Chinga tu Madre” And has NO COMPUNCTION of turning this political. Same goes for OPEC flooding the market. I can picture some Saudi suit who remembers ‘Sharia Oil’ or ‘ethical oil’ and he has NO COMPUNCTIONS in making this political.
Good job applying Canadian decency to South America… Keep poking that bear Ezra… Learn the hard way how little influence friendly Canada actually has in a barbaric and savage world… -
Kelvin Grabowsky commented 2015-06-10 22:49:52 -0400Counting down they days to retirement, so I don’t have to support all these damn koolaid drinkers I mean TH coffee drinkers. Because if you let this one slide by without a fight what’s the next business that these enviro-nazis attack,slowly whittling away our way of life and yes sovereignty. Some of you remind me of those people standing on the rooftops welcoming the aliens before they vaporize you. This to some of you may seem small potatoes but you pull on a small thread and who knows how far it will unravel.
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liza faucher commented 2015-06-10 22:19:56 -0400definition of out of context.
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liza faucher commented 2015-06-10 22:19:03 -0400Does that belong in this thread Judy?
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Peter Netterville commented 2015-06-10 21:53:18 -0400Judy, you are a master of taking what was meant in one context and applying it to another. How very skillful of you. I salute your manipulation.
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Judith Schuett commented 2015-06-10 21:18:01 -0400@ Peter N…you said “To base your decision on doing the opposite of what someone else says is, to say the least, a foolish decision.” great unintended rebuttal to Lauren Southern’s comment that she says: “I’m trying to go against everything I’ve been taught” …I agree with you!
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liza faucher commented 2015-06-10 20:30:54 -0400I have already told you , it is because it is bad for Canadian business to let enviro activists have their uninformed way with us. It wouldn’t have been good business practice for Enbridge to make a fuss, they are very cognisant of public opinion and the slander they receive. I’m not sure it would have been a bad idea though. People would have had to look at the portfolio of resource stocks Timmy holds from Canadian oil patch related companies. Something the left doesn’t want to admit. No one wants to look at that fact for what it is. How much timmys stock do you own Jimmy? or are you just a "back to the garden " kind of guy.
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Jimmy Da Silva commented 2015-06-10 20:16:23 -0400Liza,
Well if Enbridge has no interest in making a fuss – why are you making a fuss? I am sure they have more of a reason to be angry compared to you.
