Kathleen Wynne deals major blow to Tim Hortons

captain morgan

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I almost never go there anyway. But boycotting in the short term will hurt employees more than the franchise owners. There would have been no problem if Restaurant Brands had let the franchisees raise prices to meet government imposed cost increases.
The real problem is that the government is causing inflation at the expense ow low paid workers.
Do you pay your drivers union rate?

That's the kicker, isn't it?

The foolish decision to boycott a business that claims to have difficulty affording the existing costs will result in cut hours or outright layoffs.

... Nothing like the cure being more fatal than the disease, eh?
 

petros

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All it takes is buying one share of Tim's. Then you have a ticket in to shareholder meetings where you can voice your opinion and vote on the direction of a Corp.

But yelling at buildings and going to Starbucks instead will do nothing.
 

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Walter is a low class bigot idiot Trumptard...

Premier Wynne won the election and for many is doing a great job helping the poorest and forgotten in Ontario
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh man, another cauldron baby. The Wynned Bag didn't do shit for anyone but herself and her cronies until her approval rating was threatening to hit the single digits.

As for the poorest and forgotten in Ontario, to whom are you referring? Queen's Park is right in Toronto where there's thousands and thousands of homeless people. The Liberals ain't done shit for them and in fact made things worse for many of them by de-listing mental health services for those over 18 years of age.

Or maybe you were referring to the many Native people in Ontario who live in squalid, third world conditions (think Attawapiskat for example) because their leaders are every bit as corrupt and uncompassionate as the Wynned Bag.
 

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The average drivers rate is 0.40 to 0.47 cents a mile.

I pay my drivers 0.50 a mile and full benefits, as well as Medical Coverage in the USA in case of incidents

Thank God for Manulife... best dam rates
Great at fifty miles per hour they make $25.00 for that they bring a truck and fuel into the equation .
 

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh man, another cauldron baby. The Wynned Bag didn't do shit for anyone but herself and her cronies until her approval rating was threatening to hit the single digits.

As for the poorest and forgotten in Ontario, to whom are you referring? Queen's Park is right in Toronto where there's thousands and thousands of homeless people. The Liberals ain't done shit for them and in fact made things worse for many of them by de-listing mental health services for those over 18 years of age.

Or maybe you were referring to the many Native people in Ontario who live in squalid, third world conditions (think Attawapiskat for example) because their leaders are every bit as corrupt and uncompassionate as the Wynned Bag.
it has been terrible to watch Wynn invent homelessness and poor indians.

How could they let her get away with it?
 

Jinentonix

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Can't you see the problem lies in the way a corporation behaves. IT will always be a selfish corrupt system.
The prices go up cause the corporation has to keep making more and more profit, it can not go down.
Right, but you're blaming the corporations for obeying govt laws.
In most businesses, the biggest cost tends to be payroll costs. Investor protection laws (championed by both the left and right) force publicly traded companies to do everything they legally can to keep the profits rolling for the shareholders.
Globalization and free trade agreements (championed by both the left and right) made it easier to drastically cut those payroll costs by relocating to places where they could get away with paying a fraction of what they were paying over here.

Remember, they only had to do what they legally could to keep the profits rolling. There's no govt laws forcing them to do what is ethically or morally right. Particularly since those concepts are subjective in the first place.

To put it another way, who do you blame? Various govts for setting the table or those who partake of the free lunch that govts have provided them?
 

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Does it matter?

When you have these kinds of optics, it's good news either way.
 

petros

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Didn't you read your linked article?

In spite of research purporting to support these opposing sides, the issues are so complex, so entangled with other economic impacts, with politics, with emotion, that exactly how the rise in wages will play out is far from certain.

Economists around the world are enthralled by what is effectively a huge and radical real-life experiment. The laboratory is the Canadian economy. The lab rats are us.
Despite all your rage you are still just a rat in a cage.
 

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Right, but you're blaming the corporations for obeying govt laws.
In most businesses, the biggest cost tends to be payroll costs. Investor protection laws (championed by both the left and right) force publicly traded companies to do everything they legally can to keep the profits rolling for the shareholders.
Globalization and free trade agreements (championed by both the left and right) made it easier to drastically cut those payroll costs by relocating to places where they could get away with paying a fraction of what they were paying over here.

Remember, they only had to do what they legally could to keep the profits rolling. There's no govt laws forcing them to do what is ethically or morally right. Particularly since those concepts are subjective in the first place.

To put it another way, who do you blame? Various govts for setting the table or those who partake of the free lunch that govts have provided them?

I blame capitalism itself.
 

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That transformation will take the form of all of ontario business' moving West.

hehehehehe


 

Jinentonix

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it has been terrible to watch Wynn invent homelessness and poor indians.

How could they let her get away with it?
And it's been terrible watching you try to twist and spin. You're just another flossy, trying so hard to prove how genuinely stupid and clueless you are.
 

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And it's been terrible watching you try to twist and spin. You're just another flossy, trying so hard to prove how genuinely stupid and clueless you are.
says someone invented homelessness and poverty last year - does not like people people twisting and spinning things
 

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says someone invented homelessness and poverty last year - does not like people people twisting and spinning things
Oh by all means. Do point out where I said that poverty and homelessness were invented last year by the Wynned Bag. I can wait.
Or is this the point where you pull a flosstard and bail the f*ck out since you've been caught showing off your stupidity and gross lack of comprehension skills.

Quick question as an aside for you. What colour is the sky in your world?