Ottawa

Worthwhile census submissions (III)

Mike Moffatt tries to understand Tony Clement’s economics.

If you’re Tony Clement, you go out and buy a 30 million dollar machine that inserts broken glass into the bread. When your customers complain about the broken glass, call them a bunch of freeloaders. After all, they did benefit from years of inexpensive bread. After awhile, you won’t have any more annoying customers to deal with.

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