The Canadian press is bingeing on encomiums for Ron Joyce, who died this last week. Joyce was the co-founder of Tim Hortons, and is often credited with much of the company's commercial success.
But, wait, wasn't he the guy who sold Tim Hortons to American burger chain Wendy's for a cool $400 million in 1996, which led to its sale to Burger King, which was then taken over by RBI, which has led to all the problems Tim's has been dealing with over the last couple of years?
Joyce may have been a highly successful businessman, and the kind of archetypal rags-to-riches story that is much beloved by the press. But, please, he didn't do it for Canada, and he was no saint (a 2013 sexual assault case is still ongoing).
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