Is the Tim Hortons takeover primarily a designed to fail, pump-and-dump, engineered financial product?

Canada has a well-earned, international reputation for franchise investors.

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Mom-and-pop Tim Hortons franchisee investments:

1. $1.8-Billion of current CDN franchisee cash flow is removed from +1,000 Canadian family’s life savings, and
2. replaced by a government guaranteed “liar loan” program (moral hazard) which will be the debt trap for the next-generation of CDN immigrant Tim Hortons franchisees?

see William K. Black and an criminogenic environment,

Weak Ontario franchise law + lapdog CDN insolvency law + predatory franchise lending = Canadian securities regulation weakest link into North American capital markets