American-style politics hit sleepy Nova Scotia

[Wirey]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/liberals-taking-pc-candidate-to-court-after-coffee-gift-cards-1.7382133

For those of you who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's the Canadian version of Starbucks, except the coffee is good and it doesn't take 5 hours to get through the drive-through.

This is $51 worth of coffee from someone who apologized and quit. I'm not a right wing kinda guy, but is whining about a mistake like this (that apparently has already been fixed) the way to get people on-board with your message?

 

[We Never Know]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/liberals-taking-pc-candidate-to-court-after-coffee-gift-cards-1.7382133

For those of you who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's the Canadian version of Starbucks, except the coffee is good and it doesn't take 5 hours to get through the drive-through.

This is $51 worth of coffee from someone who apologized and quit. I'm not a right wing kinda guy, but is whining about a mistake like this (that apparently has already been fixed) the way to get people on-board with your message?

Crazy!

But vote for me and...
-I will give people with a small business $50k
-I will give first time home buyers $25k
-I will give people with new born's $6k
Is just normal campaigning here in the US.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/liberals-taking-pc-candidate-to-court-after-coffee-gift-cards-1.7382133

For those of you who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's the Canadian version of Starbucks, except the coffee is good and it doesn't take 5 hours to get through the drive-through.

This is $51 worth of coffee from someone who apologized and quit. I'm not a right wing kinda guy, but is whining about a mistake like this (that apparently has already been fixed) the way to get people on-board with your message?

Isn't there an exemption for low-value giveaway items?

At a street festival this summer, one of the local MPPs gave out reusable shopping bags with his name and URL on them. It didn't even occur to me that this might be illegal. Different province, but still...

 

[Wirey]

Crazy!

But vote for me and...
-I will give people with a small business $50k
-I will give first time home buyers $25k
-I will give people with new born's $6k
Is just normal campaigning here in the US.

Every politician bribes voters with tax money. That's legal. But they can't buy you a cup of coffee.

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money” -Alexis De Tocqueville

 

[Wirey]

Isn't there an exemption for low-value giveaway items?

At a street festival this summer, one of the local MPPs gave out reusable shopping bags with his name and URL on them. It didn't even occur to me that this might be illegal. Different province, but still...

I think that would be like a campaign button, so acceptable. Cash or consumer goods are different. When I was a teenager in northern NS the Liberals and Conservatives would generally pay a pint of rum for a vote, provided they trusted you to actually vote for their guy.

 

[We Never Know]

Every politician bribes voters with tax money. That's legal. But they can't buy you a cup of coffee.

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money” -Alexis De Tocqueville

Yeah promises aren't actions but the same motive is there.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

For those of you who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's the Canadian version of Starbucks, except the coffee is good and it doesn't take 5 hours to get through the drive-through.

It astounds me that anyone would seriously call Tim Horton the Canadian Version of Starbucks.

 

[The Hammer]

It astounds me that anyone would seriously call Tim Horton the Canadian Version of Starbucks.

Vapid response

 

[Twilight Hue]

Crazy!

But vote for me and...
-I will give people with a small business $50k
-I will give first time home buyers $25k
-I will give people with new born's $6k
Is just normal campaigning here in the US.

I don't know how any politician would ever think that limited taxpayer bailouts would help the economy and make people's lives improve in any permanent way.

 

[Wirey]

It astounds me that anyone would seriously call Tim Horton the Canadian Version of Starbucks.

I felt bad doing it. It would be rough to live somewhere that has coffee provided by the same people who treat sewage, but we can't all hit Timmy's.

 

[fantome profane]

Crazy!

But vote for me and...
-I will give people with a small business $50k
-I will give first time home buyers $25k
-I will give people with new born's $6k
Is just normal campaigning here in the US.

Americans are so accustomed to their own government screwing them over instead of helping them that they think that is what government is supposed to do. But it is not, your government is suppose to help the people, "promote the general welfare".


But you don't want a government that is going to help people, you want a government that is going to harm the people you don't like.

Congratulations, you got what you wanted.

 

[Audie]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/liberals-taking-pc-candidate-to-court-after-coffee-gift-cards-1.7382133

For those of you who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's the Canadian version of Starbucks, except the coffee is good and it doesn't take 5 hours to get through the drive-through.

This is $51 worth of coffee from someone who apologized and quit. I'm not a right wing kinda guy, but is whining about a mistake like this (that apparently has already been fixed) the way to get people on-board with your message?

Always blaming the USA.

 

[Kathryn]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/liberals-taking-pc-candidate-to-court-after-coffee-gift-cards-1.7382133

For those of you who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's the Canadian version of Starbucks, except the coffee is good and it doesn't take 5 hours to get through the drive-through.

This is $51 worth of coffee from someone who apologized and quit. I'm not a right wing kinda guy, but is whining about a mistake like this (that apparently has already been fixed) the way to get people on-board with your message?

There is a Tim Horton in my town but my sister in law recently told me they are no good, and I haven't been.

 

[fantome profane]

There is a Tim Horton in my town but my sister in law recently told me they are no good, and I haven't been.

My home town is the birthplace of Tim Hortons.

Tim Horton is like a god here.

 

[Kathryn]

Oh not here. Sorry. It's like a super empty parking lot every time I drive past it. regardless of the date or time. I keep expecting it to close.

 

[Wirey]

Oh not here. Sorry. It's like a super empty parking lot every time I drive past it. regardless of the date or time.

That's because their service is so fantastic you're not stuck waiting in line.

 

[Kathryn]

That's because their service is so fantastic you're not stuck waiting in line.

I keep expecting it to close.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

It astounds me that anyone would seriously call Tim Horton the Canadian Version of Starbucks.

Here in the Northeast we consider it the Canadian version of Dunkin'. The coffee is definitely better.

 

[fantome profane]

Oh not here. Sorry. It's like a super empty parking lot every time I drive past it. regardless of the date or time. I keep expecting it to close.

Well in most places in the U.S. it is a saturated market. Hard to open up a new unfamiliar chain of donut shops. In Canada Tim Hortons has a long history.

 

[Kathryn]

Well in most places in the U.S. it is a saturated market. Hard to open up a new unfamiliar chain of donut shops. In Canada Tim Hortons has a long history.

I agree, though the local donut shop seems to be doing very well.