Rant of the Week

Canadian Tire

 

I never knew this before, but during the 9/11 crisis, when thousands of airlines passengers were stranded in Gander, Newfoundland, the local Canadian Tire Store, with approval from head office, instructed their clerks to ask if any customer was one of the "airplane people".  If they were, the clerks were instructed to allow them to take whatever they needed without cost.

We drove past that Canadian Tire on our way to Trinity Bay from Twillingate.  Across the road is a Walmart.  Most of the "airplane people" were American, but the Walmart charged their usual prices for everything-- they actually had more of what the passengers needed because all of the luggage was sealed in the planes and inaccessible.

Canadian Tire, when it ran out of sleep bags and such, bought $10,000 worth of goods from Walmart and gave it away to the passengers.

Let's not be tacky and notice how the grateful Americans have repaid us by slandering our health care system.

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