Hmm….that shirt the COO was wearing almost looked like some kind of quasi military, with the bars on the shoulders etc. Dress code? I’ve heard that the Brazilian Holding Company that owns Timmies is just this side of the Nazis, so I guess the shirt would fit……………..

Jeff,

Funny how Ezra’s crack team of journalists didn’t uncover that through research – making a boycott absolutely pointless and laughable. Of course if The Rebel actually researched this properly, they wouldn’t be able to create the drama that conservatives are eating up.

Jimmy Da Silva said,
“Peter,
Well good thing that hasn’t happed here – since the issue has been addressed by all.”

Odd the only one to respond to my comment was the one to who I was referring. You must think of yourself as a troll. You have done your share of insulting the people before you started to address the issue.

“Oh the irony of Ezra saying “don’t lie to me”, when Ezra has been proven to be a full blown liar. The only thing this video shows is that you are an attention whore.” – - that might be a bit considered a bit personal, don’tcha think?

“Christoph, You are delusional.” – - another personal insult.

Just sayin’ Jimmy, trolls have a certain recognizable trademark.

Just have a look at the company that bought them out… ‘3G Capital’ has within it’s corporate holdings CNRL, Kinder Morgan, Pembina Pipelines, Halliburton and a MILLION shares of Suncor..! Then tell me how they are ‘beating down the oil workers of Canada’ and slapping you in the face.. If for some god forsaken reason they decide to stop camp day or maybe stop selling the cookies for the childrens’ hospitals, by all means, tighten those knots in your panties and have at it.. But make all this crap worth while. Oh yeah, 3G Capital USED to own shares in Enbridge… Take it from there…

Crappy company, Crappy products, Crappy corporate citizen!!!!

Liza,

How are Tim Horton’s slapping you in the face exactly. They are a business that sells coffee and donuts. That’s all they owe you for the money you have spent there.

Fred,

You nailed it. Tim Hortons don’t owe a thing to Enbridge – they can run their business and Tims TV as they see fit and like you said – if customers don’t like it, they can stop buying their coffee. But trying to get a boycott movement going is ridiculous.

“Tim Horton’s is free to cancel- if you don’t like it don’t buy their coffee.”

Well that is exactly true Fred, and exactly what people are doing. It is every Canadian’s business, since it was clearly, an in your face slap against Canadian resource extraction. No apology- no buy. Why would I want to support a company with my dollars, when they take my money with one hand and slap me in the face with the other. How far this goes will be a reflection of how widely this insult is felt. A lot of Canadians work in resource related jobs in this country.

Tim’s didn’t let the contract run out, they made a definitive statement against Canadian extraction by pulling the ad. It is very political and not a small thing as you seem to think.

Peter,

Well good thing that hasn’t happed here – since the issue has been addressed by all.

You can always tell the left wing trolls that post on this site because most of them attack the reporter/columnist or the people that post here rather than address the issue. Making personal attacks is a common characteristic of trolls, mostly because they either don’t have anything to say about the topic or don’t care about the topic, they just want to attack the people and insult them.

That is the sign of a juvenile mind.

In our beautiful free Canada Tim Hortons should be free to cancel any contract with any business. It may have been unwise, but it is none of our concern. No human rights were violated. Let Embridge sue them if they want. You don’t like it – don’t buy their coffee. But a national boycot is blowing it out of proportion. There are far more important issues to concentrate on.

Timmy’s, Is that OPEC oil I see spewing from your transport trucks delivering your product to the 8 restaurants in my small town of 30,000. I thought so.

Liza…
We will agree to disagree.
Unions are far, far from perfect, but EVIL?
If there is any “evil” entity out there it is corporations. That being said, profit is NOT A BAD WORD.
My comment was meant to simply reflect the fact that Tim Horton’s doesn’t give a rat’s fat little ass about what anybody thinks or does.
They are a self serving, greed driven franchise that will shit on anyone, anytime to promote whatever agenda suits their fancy. And they are not alone.
The fact that democratically electing union representation can be stonewalled by a corporation that can AFFORD to dismantle a store just so they don’t have to comply with a free vote by their employees, says it all.

Liza,

I didn’t say it was right – I am just stating the reality of how Tim Hortons feels about those 9,000 customers. Bell and Rogers have endless customer complaints and people cutting their service – those companies don’t care, when they have millions upon millions of customers and new customers signing up every day.

Another thing to consider is the fact that not all of those 9,000 customers will be staying away from Tim Hortons forever. Like many boycotts – once it blows over and people have forgotten about it, many of the people boycotting will be getting their coffee from Tim Hortons again.

How funny! “No anti-oil and gas at TH” at 11:14…and then “…running of those ads on Tim’s TV cased a furor out in the marketplace” a few seconds later, at 11:40. Really? No anti oil/gas bias at TH, hence the cancellation of the ads…to spare the furor?? I guess he meant no foreign anti-oil gas bias…very sad. What is more sad, he might be right: many un/mis-informed patrons applaud TH for standing up against Canadian oil and gas.
On another note: maybe an appointment should have been encouraged and a little more open ended questions to give the guy enough rope… something like: What does he think of the Canadian oil industry, do they do a good job, does he think it is important for the Canadian economy, does he generally like/support the Canadian energy industry, does he agree with energy independence, should we keep importing oil from OPEC countries – would he rather support that? Also: who supplies the majority of energy to their businesses, including all stores? Would TH be able to function without Canadian energy? Just an idea…be less confrontational and let the person compromise himself.

Eric,that is completely another topic, but unions are evil, can’t say I blame them for not wanting them. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/tim-hortons-loses-265k-at-hospital-union-won-t-budge-1.1136257

nobody can carry on doing business or would want to under that sort of heavy handed union gavel coming down on them. Tim Hortons has always paid fairly decent wages without union interference, just not a skilled trade union wage, and why should they.

On topic though, is the fact that giving in to some politically correct minority rhetoric and taking down the Enbridge ad, was an in your face act of disrespect for Canada’s ethical oil.

Ezra missed asking the main question.
“Dick, you look like a smart guy.
What possessed you to think it was just a simple climb onto this donkey
and then slink unnoticed up to and over the finish line on it ?”

9,000 signatures and growing, plus several family members, friends and acquaintances who may not get around to signing, but will follow their friends into a Dunkin Donuts instead of a Timmy’s. The ramifications are yet to be seen, you can’t say there won’t be any.

Jimmy if you had even a smidgen of a clue about good business practice, even in the big big untouchable corporate world, you would never have said something as stupid as this comment,
Says Jimmy, “I assure you that they don’t give a fuck about you or the loss of you as a customer. You have already been replaced.”
You and Jesse Brown, are welcome to your opinion, can you say the same about us? There are Canadians who don’t like the obvious insult the new Brazilian owners have levelled on their country, and plan on showing their disgust for such blatant disregard by using their feet, as in never buying Tim Horton’s again. Tim Horton is rolling over in his grave.

Eric,

Maybe that’s the lesson here – Tim Hortons was always a horrible company. The “good times” never existed, so no one should be shocked now.

Terrence,

And this is the problem with what Ezra is doing. He is selling this on The Rebel as some big movement, but 9,000 signatures is pathetic. Be honest. Ezra should acknowledge that this boycott is NOT getting the traction that they were hoping for – instead of making it sound like every Canadian is talking about this and there is outrage across Canada. Why misrepresent and lie?

The reality is this – nobody gives a fuck about this to any great degree. The 9,000 signatures mean less than nothing when you consider the population of Canada and the millions of Tim Hortons customers, who don’t give a shit about what’s on Tims TV. It’s just something to stare blankly at to kill time like a subway ad. You have forgotten it the second you leave.

For what it’s worth:
About 14 years ago, a Tim Horton’s in Nova Scotia had an employee vote on whether they wanted to unionize.
The vote was taken, the majority of the employees voted to support the union, Tim Horton’s FIRED everyone, and then had the pathetic audacity to…DEMOLISH the store…and this was when the corporation was still owned by Canadians…even before it was bought out by the “Wendy’s” company.

Tim Horton’s “took their widdle ball and ran home to mother…”

Tim Horton’s has always been a rotten outfit, but the majority will keep right on supporting them, because until such actions affect a person directly and personally, most people don’t give a shit.

Ellen,

Sorry, but your math is faulty for numerous reasons – but one big reason is that Tim Hortons acquires NEW customers daily. While you are no longer going there – someone else is going to replace you, so it will all even out for them in terms of profits.

This is the very reason why some companies don’t mind pissing off certain customers for whatever reason – it’s because they are sitting on millions upon millions of customers. They can afford to piss off 9,000 people – when they will get 20,000 new sign ups next month.

Jimmy, you don’t get my point. A professional full time lobby group going nationwide for who knows how long to its own pre-organized followers could only muster 30,000 signatures. Meanwhile, in a very finite period of time, the unorganized rank and file public, largely in one province, have managed to raise 8600 signatures. This is a mismatched race from the outset. One side had an undisclosed head start of unknown duration and had already screamed victory before the opponent knew there was a race. Now the ‘victor’ is trying to use its spurious victory as proof of its superiority. Secondly, the claim that the oil and gas petition for lack of a better term is less valid because it was started by one man is simply stupid. All actions are begun by one person, all of them. Finally, they claim that they cannot believe that people care what is on Timmy’s screens while ordering their drinks, PARDON? Doesn’t that evoke the question of why was their an environmentalist lobby then? Why do they have nothing better to do than go to Tim’s and watch ads? Not to mention why don’t they question Tim’s on the source of their coffee? is it fair trade coffee? Do they buy from small growers or coops or do they buy from the futures market with all its oppression of tropical land owners? These are questions I ask when I here about noble environmentalists.

As a middle-class, university educated, retired senior, I am heartened by the fact that “theRebelmedia” is pushing back against the hypocrisy that Tim Horton’s has displayed re the cancellation of Enbridge’s ad contract. I have been a regular customer of Tim’s for years, but as a result of this debacle, I have joined the boycott movement.

I am a Canadian first, and I fully support all industries that make my country such a strong economic powerhouse. That means that I support the oil industry and the hundreds of thousands of jobs Canadians have because of it. I would also like to support Tim Horton’s, but they caved under pressure from a foreign anti-oil lobby group, so I can no longer do so.

What impact do I have on Tim’s bottom line? Well, I calculate that at roughly $50 per week x 52 weeks, my impact amounts to about $2600 per year. Multiply that amount by 9000 signatories and Tim’s has lost approximately $23 million! And this is only the tip of the iceberg! Keep rebelling for us, Ezra!

Terrence,

Jesse Brown was making the point that the boycott isn’t successful and people like Ezra are trying to make something out of nothing. As he said – the supposed outrage of Canadians couldn’t even generate more than the 30,000 that complained about the ads. Surely if Canadians were supporting the boycott to any great degree, the petition to boycott Tim Hortons should have long surpassed 30,000 by now if there was a real movement going on here.

Support your local Mom and Pop coffee shops.
They appreciate your business.

Bill,

It’s already over. The boycott has had and will continue to have zero impact on Tim Hortons despite what Ezra is trying to sell to people here as an attention whore with his manufactured outrage. This will be forgotten about in no time.

I listened to the podcast from Canada Land Show. They say that they can’t believe anyone has the time to be outraged an ad in a tim hortons while ordering a coffee, and then go on to try to explain how the 30,000 (Canada wide) signature petition from the anti job, anti Canadian ‘environmental’ lobby was somehow more legitimate than that of the largely Albertan 8,600 signature petition. I think it is important to remember that while an environmental lobby is by its nature an organized special interest group, the Albertan petition is signed by the rank and file of the everyday Albertan. Further the allegation that the petition was started by one man evokes the question, so what is your point? Every petition is initially the work of one person. In this case one petition was started by one person in the environmental lobby and the other by one person in the Oil and Gas industry what’s the big deal. It is sad that there are 3X as many in favor of shutting down Canadian industry and jobs than there are interested in protecting those jobs but I guess we can afford higher welfare roles and the taxes that will come with them and anyway Canada must be the worst pollluting nation in the world or these altruistic environmentalists would be taking on the real polluters, right? I am personally all for as clean an environment as possible, I am just not sure how that is achieved by railing against the cleanest end of the oil and gas sector. Where are the environmentalists in China, India, the middle east, the various filthy oil plants in the USA and Russia?

The fact is that by caving in to the first lobby and disregarding the second, Tim Horton’s for all the wrapping itself in the flag jingoism has publicly preferred one group of consumers over another. It’s a numbers game and I get that. But spare me the victim’s lament that Tim’s is being unfairly treated. They made a choice, now we all get to make ours. Do we support our world leadingly clean oil and gas industry, the workers who benefit directly and indirectly (i.e. you dear reader) or do we support shutting down the good guys so we can return to dependency on foreign dirty oil to the benefit of foreign nations and workers?