Tim Hortons stopped putting Canadians first a long time ago

While Tim Hortons runs a national PR tour telling the media they've changed, they're actively recruiting overseas and shutting Canadians out.

For more than a decade, Canadians have watched Tim Hortons turn its back on the people who built the brand. They bowed to foreign activist pressure and pulled Enbridge advertising. They barred unvaccinated children from foundation camp programs. And now, while youth unemployment rises, Tim Hortons executives are lobbying Ottawa to expand access to temporary foreign workers for the exact entry-level jobs that once helped young Canadians earn their first paycheques.

We just caught Tim Hortons telling a big lie.

In May 2026, the company — owned by Brazilian investment giant 3G Capital — launched a media campaign claiming they'd prioritize hiring Canadians again. The mainstream media repeated their talking points without asking basic questions.

Here's what they didn't tell you: the Tim Hortons CEO was personally registered as a lobbyist pushing for looser immigration and foreign worker rules — right there in the federal lobbyist registry. At the same time they claimed to have stopped lobbying, locations across Canada kept posting jobs through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker system. Food counter attendants. Supervisors. Entry-level positions. Restaurant managers. Jobs generations of Canadians once relied on.

You can see the listings for yourself right here on the federal Job Bank website.

Canadians built Tim Hortons. But instead of standing with Canadian workers, executives continue to side with activists and corporate labour schemes that leave ordinary Canadians behind.

Many Canadians have simply had enough.