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Originally Posted by valo403
If by "ours" you mean the shareholders of Tim Horton's, then yes, it's "ours". If you are referring to Canadians then, no, it is not "ours". It's a corporation designed to make money, it's no more "ours" than Rona or any other Canadian company. It's been marketed as some sort of cultural institution, and apparently they got that hook pretty deep into your gills.
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Again, I don't really recall some sort of campaign revolving around "Be Canadian, buy Tims". Unless you're referring to Canada day donuts and such.
Tim Hortons is cultural to Canadians because Canadians choose it over all other coffe providers by a huge margin. And from that stems the cultrual institution tag. And yeah Tim's plays it up with the aformentioned Canada donuts and maple things and so on, but I really don't think it's a bad thing. So its a Canadian company that targets Canadian interests....must be evil!
Canadian people made Tim Hortons a distinctly Canadian thing. Not Tim Hortons itself.