Tims for Troops

Who can resist the wafting aroma of Tim Horton's coffee? Not moi! And certainly not most Canadians. So, it's good news all around that the Big Cheese of our Armed Forces has invited the CEO of Tim's to tour Kandahar and figure out a way of building a little light brown hut in the middle of chaos for our troops to access. After a day of avoiding land mines and snipers, our troops deserve an opportunity to debrief over a taste of home. I can't think of a better morale booster than that, except maybe sending the Trailer Parks Boys over to entertain.

What an odd and unique country we have become. Our national identity is wrapped around little hunks of dough and twice-a-year contests to Roll up the rim. Sure we have other symbols, but most of them are declining in importance to Tim Horton's outlets across this vast nation.

• Gone is the railroad that connected us from coast to coast. It's now a walking trail, unfortunately littered with brown coffee cups.
• So long to universal medicare. That'll be history in a couple of years when the two-tiered system, which is already in place, is finally acknowledged.
• The CBC? Have you listened to it lately?? If I hear one more Dave and Morley story, I'll choke. Those dimwits on the weekly afternoon show are mind numbing.........and the Voice on The Current is the unfunniest piece of yuk. It's sad and true. CBC is not the icon it used to be.
• Mr. Dress-up and the Friendly Giant..........gone.
• Don Cherry? Heard it all before...........
• Hockey? Well, I just read that while the other Olympians were being cheered and welcomed home in airports from coast to coast, the bazillionaire hockey players quietly (and rightly so) slunked by in anonymity. And poor Gretzky........annus horribilus for sure. He's out of the running right now.

No, Tim Hortons has definately soared upward to represent all of who we are. It's time for our Canadian troops to savour a steamy cup of home........get their jolt of caffiene and go find that Bin Laden guy.

Gee........who knows? Maybe the wafting aroma of Canadiana will lure Bin Laden and his cronies out of the Afghanistan caves. I mean really, who can resist a double double or an opportunity to Roll up the Rim to win a new gas Bar BQ? Maybe this is the ammunition that has been needed all along. It's worth a try. Nothing has worked so far.