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Lianne Rood, the Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, Ont., has had it up to the rim with Tim Hortons’ “woke paper lids,” and apparently also their new pizza.
On Thursday, the Conservative politician tweeted out a 30-second video with all the lustre and production value of a campaign spot — except that her target was not the governing Liberal party, but the restaurant chain.
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“Well Canada, this is the last straw — I mean lid,” she says, standing in front of a Tim Hortons restaurant and brandishing one of its iconic red cups.
She continues: “Really, Tim Hortons? Paper lids that disintegrate in your mouth? Come on!”
“This is just another example of something trying to help the environment when it’s actually going to have the opposite effect,” she explains. “If we have a plastic lid, at least it’s recyclable, but this, disintegrating in your mouth as your trying to drink your coffee? No thanks!”
She concludes: “I don’t know about you but until Tim Hortons gets rid of this paper lid, I’m done with Tim Hortons.” The video concludes with her name and affiliation on a blue background.
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Her video doesn’t specifically disparage the chain’s new pizza offering, but the tweet notes: “Tim’s used to be for the little guy who wanted a quick coffee and a bite. Now they’re making pizzas and crappy paper lids. I’m done with Tim Hortons until they stop trying to push these woke paper lids that dissolve in your mouth.”
Rood then followed up with a more pointed political comment, tweeting: “Yet another example of the failed NDP-Liberal plastics ban that will do nothing to help the environment.”
One person on X noted that Rood’s paper-lid quandary could be solved by bringing a reusable coffee cup to Tim’s, which would also earn her a 10-cent rebate on each coffee.
Rood isn’t the only one to take issue with Tim’s beverage containers. As reported two months ago in the National Post, the “little guy” was taking to social media with numerous complaints about the cups splitting during use.
Fortunately for the MP, her riding is mostly rural with no more than a smattering of Tim Hortons restaurants serving its roughly 100,000 inhabitants. There’s one in Dresden that she may want to avoid. Ottawa, on the other hand, has more than 70 locations.
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