[Timpo]

Fries with that, Mr. Trudeau? PM stops in for surprise McDonald's lunch
'I like he went for just a casual McDonald's, you know, he was kind of like one of us'
By Haydn Watters, CBC News Posted: Jun 18, 2016 8:02 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 18, 2016 8:18 PM ET

Fries with that, Mr. Trudeau? PM stops in for surprise McDonald's lunch - Trending - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/mcdonalds-trudeau-whitby-1.3642207)

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3642296.1466291615!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/trudeau-in-mcdonalds.jpg
Dominic Morales' co-worker snapped this photo of the prime minister from behind the counter when he stopped in at this McDonald's by the Whitby Mall. 'I did want to respect his privacy so I didn’t do much,' Morales said. (Ardienne Salas/Google Maps)

Who knew the day shift at McDonald's could be so exciting?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a pit stop for lunch Saturday at the Whitby Mall McDonald's, about 45 minutes east of downtown Toronto.

The unannounced visit caught a lot of McDonald's staffers off-guard, like 16-year-old student Dominic Morales, who was on his break when the prime minister dropped in.

"I heard like a lot of screaming coming from our co-workers," Morales told CBC News, soon realizing who had walked in. " like 'Was he here for an event or whatever?' And then it just turns out he was just ordering food, like a normal person."

"I don't really delve into a lot of what the prime minister does. I think he'd go to a higher class place … I like he went for just a casual McDonald's, you know, he was kind of like one of us."

Morales shot a video of his co-workers soon after the prime minister left, giddy with excitement about their brush with the politician.

In the video, the colleague who served Trudeau starts listing off some of his order — a cheeseburger happy meal, a Big Mac meal, a quarter pounder with cheese meal, a McChicken — before admitting she didn't even recognize him at first.

"Melissa was like, 'Hey. Can you help on till?' I was like, 'Yeah sure.' The guy comes up and he takes off his glasses and he's like, 'Hi.' And I was like, 'Oh my god. That's the Prime Minister,'" she said in the video.

Trudeau was in the area for an event on the Rouge River, where he spent part of the morning canoeing.

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3642300.1466292264!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/justin-trudeau-in-mcdonalds.jpg
[I]'He just walked in, ordered a lot of food, we made the food, gave it to him and then he left,' said 16-year-old McDonald's employee Dominic Morales. (Submitted by Dominic Morales)

'I guess he just was hungry'

Fidel Gomes, the restaurant's general manager, said he didn't know the prime minister would be coming in, but he wishes he had.

Gomes was in store at the time and got to have a quick word with the prime minister before he took off — "He said, 'See you later, Fidel.'"

Before Saturday's visit, he said his biggest guest was the McDonald's president. Regardless of the surprise, Gomes said serving the prime minister was an honour.

Morales said everything about the encounter was low-key, though Trudeau did come in with some security.

"It was the most casual thing I've seen," he said. "Most of the people in the back didn't know that they were making his food so they just treated him as any normal person would."

He has told some of his friends, but many of them said they didn't believe him. Morales said the whole thing does sound pretty far-fetched.

"I guess he just was hungry."

[pastarocket]

That's what I like about PM Trudeau. The guy sees himself as a regular guy, just going to a fast food place like McD's for some food.

Wow, he ordered so much food. He likes his fast food or he is ordering for his security team too? :lawl:

If Trump was elected POTUS, would he go to a Popeye's Chicken or Chipotle for lunch? I don't think so. :troll:

[Great68]

That's what I like about PM Trudeau. The guy sees himself as a regular guy, just going to a fast food place like McD's for some food.

Wow, he ordered so much food. He likes his fast food or he is ordering for his security team too? :lawl:

If Trump was elected POTUS, would he go to a Popeye's Chicken or Chipotle for lunch? I don't think so. :troll:
Didn't Obama go to five guys and order for his whole crew for lunch once?

[Manic!]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/387201/BILL-CLINTON-AL-GORE-SHORTS.jpg

Clinton likes his McDonald's too. Story has it he and Gore went for a run deiced to stop at McDonalds. He did not have his wallet with him so they got it for free.

[6o4__boi]

well, that definitely hit my limit of guys in short shorts for the year.

:inout:

[jackmeister]

is the PM in better physical shape than his security detail?

[quasi]

He eats lunch? Holy shit I wonder if he actually shits and pisses like the rest of us mortals?

[unit]

i remember when jean chretien did the same thing and it was on the news as well.

[yray]

liberals like mcdonalds

mulcair will scream pathetic when he gets sugar and milk in his black mcdicks coffee :troll:

[ZN6]

I LOVE MCDONALD'S AND YOU DO TOO thread material.

Because we lovin' it, so does Trudeau.

[ZN6]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/387201/BILL-CLINTON-AL-GORE-SHORTS.jpg

Clinton likes his McDonald's too. Story has it he and Gore went for a run deiced to stop at McDonalds. He did not have his wallet with him so they got it for free.

:heckno: How does he not chafe with no thigh gap?! Must have been painful.

[meme405]

:facepalm: ... CBC how could you stoop so low.

I guess he was just hungry

Holy shit you think? Thanks Captain Obvious, any other brilliant comments you can think of?

[CharlesInCharge]

With both Clinton's deep in controversy, flash forward 30 years for us to find out this guy did Jimmy Savile runs.
It doesnt matter who his father was, this is how politicians and people in the limelight are breed by her majesty.

[GLOW]

wut?

[CharlesInCharge]

Bills good buddy is notorious for this stuff.. serving a short time in jail for it currently. Hilary has admitted to knowingly defending a guilty one in her young lawyer days.

[swiftshift]

I find it interesting how people would make an article on our PM just eating McDonalds..

[Spoon]

TLDNR

This made the news because he elbowed someone in the boob at McDonalds, right?

[Verdasco]

and why do people care that he went to mcdonalds? hes not that famous compared to obama or any elite politician, only famous for his looks!


obama goes to the donut shop in seattle and his pictures is everywhere, doubt justin would get any fame by doing the same .....

[Verdasco]

TLDNR

This made the news because he elbowed someone in the boob at McDonalds, right?

and Mulclair screaming "PATHETIC, JUST ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!" in the background BrokeBack EleGiggle

[GLOW]

oh i thought it made news b/c he didn't speak mandarin there. LUL

McDonald's customer alleges language discrimination - British Columbia - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mcdonald-s-customer-alleges-language-discrimination-1.1319942)

[Timpo]

and why do people care that he went to mcdonalds? hes not that famous compared to obama or any elite politician, only famous for his looks!


obama goes to the donut shop in seattle and his pictures is everywhere, doubt justin would get any fame by doing the same .....

Not true.

Justin Trudeau is up there now.

Just do Google research. Justin Trudeau is the FIRST Canadian Prime Minister American actually talk/care about.
A lot of American knows who Justin Trudeau is, whereas nobody gave 2 shits about Harper or other Canadian Prime Ministers.

Same as in Japan.

Japanese media was going crazy when Trudeau visited Japan recently.
Whereas nobody in Japan (or Asia for that matter) knew who Stephen Harper or Jean Chritien was.

Also Justin Trudeau is the first Canadian Prime Minister to be invited to the White House in last 2 decades.

Trudeau is getting approx 10 times more likes on his Facebook page than Harper too.

The popularity of Trudeau and Harper is not even competition if you look globally.

[jasonturbo]

Don't mind me, I'm just bouncing up and down on Trudeau's dick :nyan:

[MG1]

I think a lot of women want to do that exact same thing.................

[zulutango]

So, with yet another orchestrated photo-op with the media notified in advance, king justin comes down from his throne and mingles for a few minutes with the common people who serve him. With his trust fund income I bet this is the first time he ever went into Mc Donalds. Up till now he didn't have to.

[Sid Vicious]

So, with yet anotyher orchestrated photo-op with the media notified in advance, king justin comes down from his throne and mingles for a few minutes with the common people who serve him. With his trust fund income I bet this is the first time he ever went into Mc Donalds. Up till now he didn't have to.

almost every politician or prime minister is from the upper class, that's the only class of people that can usually afford being a career politician, not just trudeau

[originalhypa]

who doesn't love Trudeau?! Seriously!

Is this a trick question?
I'm thinking that pretty much anyone who can see through his fairytale lies doesn't like him. He's just like any politician, except he has a pretty face. His first six months in office have been nothing more than waste of time and tax payer's money. His response to ISIS, his changing of the law to protect the rights of terrorists, and his inane desire for photo ops shows that he is a donkey with no clear direction. He built his platform on legalized marijuana, combined with the notion that he was not Harper. And Canadians ate it up. Albeit mostly young voters, who frankly have no clue what they're doing.

Trudeau is a fail.

hes not that famous compared to obama or any elite politician, only famous for his looks!

Srsly? He's the leader of a G7 nation. Canada is one of most powerful countries in the world, and he is our figurehead. But he's only famous for his looks?

Please, just log out before your ignorance spreads to others.

[Verdasco]

Is this a trick question?
I'm thinking that pretty much anyone who can see through his fairytale lies doesn't like him. He's a liar with a pretty face, and his first six months in office have been nothing more than waste of time and tax payer's money.


huh? legalizing weed, working on vancouver's real estate which harper corrupted ass fucked us over with? transit fixes to vancouver from his federal government? A new tax bracket for >$200,000 income? taxing the rich basically. Withdrawn fighters from iraq / syria? Trying to restore Canada's economy that harper destroyed?



ok der LUL


edit: Canada was going downhill so fast with Harper on hand, doubt Harper would of done anything to fix real estate prices here

[Manic!]

Lets also not forget the re opening of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station and the new Canadian pension plan deal.

[quasi]

I'm so eating lunch like a king or Prime Minister today, this post makes me Hungry McDonalds here I come. I'll be at Port Kells McDicks if any of you are looking for a photo op with me.

[originalhypa]

huh? legalizing weed,

strike one.

Trudeau government officially rules out decriminalizing marijuana before legalization | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly (http://www.straight.com/news/684951/trudeau-government-officially-rules-out-decriminalizing-marijuana-legalization)

“Until legalization legislation is put through, the current laws and the way it is now will stay in place,” Andrew MacKendrick told the Straight. “So the laws and current laws around marijuana would stay and must be obeyed.”

working on vancouver's real estate which harper corrupted ass fucked us over with?

Are you serious?
The prices in the country were rising at the time Harper was in power. But it wasn't until Trudeau was voted in that prices went insane.
https://vreaa.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/canadian-cities-house-price-index-with-quotes-1980.jpg

that's strike two...


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transit fixes to vancouver from his federal government?

The Hwy one project, along with a number of rail overpasses were built under the CPC gov't. Since Trudeau has come into power, they have signed a $750 million agreement. But it's us who are paying for it, not the feds.

A month ago, in an effort to come to an agreement in order to get the federal dollars, mayors made major concessions.

They offered to increase property taxes by $3 on average, increase fares by 2 per cent, contribute $100-million worth of profits from land sales, and add a new charge on developments that would be dedicated to transit.

In return, they asked the province to contribute $50-million of the carbon-tax revenues collected from local residents, which now goes to give rebates to residents outside the Lower Mainland, and a promise to move toward mobility pricing to pay for transit. (Mobility pricing can mean a lot of things, from tolls to zone charges to mileage charges or a combination.)


All praise to dear leader!
Also, strike three for you.


A new tax bracket for >$200,000 income? taxing the rich basically.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/canadas-rising-personal-tax-rates-and-falling-tax-competitiveness.jpg?itok=vCLq3u9t

Way to go Trudeau.
The worst thing about this is that even if you make $200k/yr, you still can't afford a house in Vancouver. Tax the rich? Maybe in Winnipeg. But in Vancouver or Toronto, you need to make this to compete with foreign money.

That's strike four, you're on a roll!


Withdrawn fighters from iraq / syria?

Withdrawing our troops basically allowed ISIS to take control of those regions. Thanks again Trudeau.

Strike five.

Trying to restore Canada's economy that harper destroyed?

We had some of our best years under Harper.
http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Macquarie-recession-chart.png

But since Trudeau took over.......
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160205/cg160205a003-eng.gif

Outside of that nasty blip in 2008 when the US economy crumbled, you see a steady unemployment decline. That is, until Trudeau took over.


So feel free to stick your strawman arguments, and your fails, right up your sphincter.

:)

[Yodamaster]

This is the kind of shit that passes as news these days?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEQmpVIE4A

[Manic!]

This is the kind of shit that passes as news these days?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEQmpVIE4A

Yep.

Woman in Chewbacca mask sets the record for most-viewed Facebook Live post ever - Trending - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/texas-mom-chewbacca-mask-most-viewed-facebook-live-ever-1.3592854)

[PeanutButter]

From some of your posts it sounds like you guys don't think Trudeau is a big effing deal. He is the Prime Minister of our great country.

If I ever saw him in real life, I would get super excited. He's the PM for goodness sakes. I would like to think if Trudeau went anywhere in Canada, he should have a HUGE fan fair. I would definitely ask to take a selfie with him.

[MG1]

Fan Fair = Fanfare?

It's a play on words, yah?


Trudeau Mania II

I remember the first one. Then there was our very own, Margaret (nuff said).

[DragonChi]

Trudeau's been in power for like 8 months. Harper had almost 10 years.

To truly know what effects he'll have on our country, it'll probably be another 10.

So far, by the looks of it. Spending, lots and lots of spending. On the surface it may look fool hardy, but if it builds the foundations of a strong economy, I'd be behind it. Too bad that we'll have to wait for us to see things in hind sight to know.

[Great68]

strike one.

Trudeau government officially rules out decriminalizing marijuana before legalization | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly (http://www.straight.com/news/684951/trudeau-government-officially-rules-out-decriminalizing-marijuana-legalization)


I don't really have an enough of an opinion on any of your other points,

But this one about weed legalization, like come on man, it takes time to properly put that sort of legislation in place.
This government has come right out and said they have committed to full legalization within their term.
I'm glad they're not going with a shitty stop-gap measure of decriminalization and saying it's going to be full legalization, it gives them absolutely no excuse to back-track on this promise.

Come back to this thread in 4 years. If it hasn't happened by then, we can say that they've failed (I'll never vote Liberal again)

[Spoon]

We had some of our best years under Harper.
http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Macquarie-recession-chart.png




Harper must've been part of OPEC or some sort of Oil Cartel. All he needs to do is flip a switch and prices will fall. :badpokerface:

[zulutango]

Lets also not forget the re opening of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station and the new Canadian pension plan deal.


So Justin is taking his own trust fund money to increase CPP ? Wonderful....oh, wait...he will be increasing taxes and CPP deductions from your pay cheque to "give us more CPP money". Anything you "get" from the Govt is taken from you or somebody else in the first place. Some of us are both "getting" CPP AND paying into it at the same time.

[MarkyMark]

I'd get more excitement finding an old Cheeto under my couch cushion than I would seeing Justin Trudeau in person.

[JaPoola]

You'd think he'd go to a Tim Hortons instead...

[PeanutButter]

I'd get more excitement finding an old Cheeto under my couch cushion than I would seeing Justin Trudeau in person.

Don't lie. If you saw him in real life, your heart rate would increase, I guarantee it.

[Eastwood]

Don't lie. If you saw him in real life, your heart rate would increase, I guarantee it.

With rage...

https://whatistheexcel.com/wooobooru/_images/7601e1c929a6fb54a91f23c2ba7ce9d7/2262%20-%20Raw%20gif%20hunter_hearst_helmsley%20rage%20wwe .gif?

[zulutango]

Don't lie. If you saw him in real life, your heart rate would increase, I guarantee it.




OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo is he wearing a man-bun under his FN headress these days? :)

[MarkyMark]

Don't lie. If you saw him in real life, your heart rate would increase, I guarantee it.

Sorry but there's nothing exciting about a prime minister. If by get excited you mean I'd look at what the commotion was about then sure, he'd grab my attention more than an average Joe. I'm not the kind of person to gather in a crowd for the chance of a selfie with someone though.

[jasonturbo]

Lifting Mexican visa rules runs counter to official advice - Politics - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mexico-visa-restrictions-lifting-three-amigos-1.3648757)

Perhaps Justin hasn't read the following;

Backgrounder - The Visa Requirement for Mexico (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/2009/2009-07-13.asp)

BBC News - Canada toughens its visa demands (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8149351.stm)

Don't get the wrong idea though, I do support this decision, I'm all for higher quality Mexican food and more affordable lawn care.

[6o4__boi]

I'm all for higher quality Mexican food and more affordable lawn care.

http://i.giphy.com/45IgGzGbLGRZC.gif


But yeah, that is a little concerning. I mean if this means Mexican weather girls can easily come to Canada, I'm all for it. But i get the sense that we'll be seeing a lot of Central American scum taking advantage of the opening via Mexico.

[originalhypa]

I'm glad they're not going with a shitty stop-gap measure of decriminalization and saying it's going to be full legalization, it gives them absolutely no excuse to back-track on this promise.

My point is that if it was one of their big talking points before the election, that decriminalization would have come right away, while they were drafting the new laws for legalization. But instead, you have the slow grind of gov't drafting new legislation while their lawyers milk every last cent out of the process. But in the meantime, folks are going to jail over pot.


22,400 pot possession arrests under Trudeau so far | Vancouver Sun

22,400 pot possession arrests under Trudeau so far | Vancouver Sun (http://vancouversun.com/news/community-blogs/22400-pot-possession-arrests-under-trudeau-so-far)

And another one from Vice.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/if-justin-trudeau-is-about-to-legalize-weed-why-are-we-still-imprisoning-people-over-it

When David Chun woke up from the grand mal seizure that almost killed him, he found himself shackled to his hospital bed.

The 54-year-old Toronto resident was diagnosed with a golf ball-sized brain tumour in 2012, causing him to have memory loss, headaches, and nausea. He was at his Etobicoke home with his two sons in January of this year when the seizure—the first one he'd ever experienced—struck, lasting 20 minutes.

Chun's sons called the ambulance.

"They had to give me a double dose of tranq just to put me out, It took seven firefighters—seven grown men—to hold me down while I was seizing. It was so bad," Chun told VICE.

According to Chun's version of events, paramedics tending to the scene noticed he had six small cannabis plants in the home and alerted police, who additionally found 300 grams of bud, and 15 dogs and a cat (Chun said the pets belonged to him and his sons). When Chun woke up in hospital six hours later, he said they arrested him for production for the purpose of selling. News reports described his house as an "illegal grow-op." His two sons, aged 22 and 23, had been thrown in jail, he learned, under the same charge, despite having showed officers Chun's medical license, which allows him to legally possess and grow pot.

Two days after he regained consciousness, while being guarded by cops and cuffed by his hands and legs to a hospital bed, Chun said he was taken to Toronto police's 22 Division station; hospital staffers, who told him he "would have died" if he had another seizure, asked that he be returned for treatment, he said. He was, briefly, but then got thrown into jail for a night, an experience he described as "terrifying."

Up until last week, when the charges against Chun and his sons were dropped, he was forbidden from entering his home. The $6,000 in cash cops found there was seized.

"They destroyed my life. They destroyed my house," said Chun, adding he didn't consume cannabis before he got ill and was growing his own strains so he could tailor them to manage his symptoms (he prefers less of a psychoactive effect).

"The police apply the laws however they decide to apply them," he told VICE, his voice rising at times. "They've eroded any sense of safety and security in my belief in democracy in Canada."


Awesome!

[zulutango]

So he is growing it for "his own use"...but they found $6000 in cash?

[quasi]

So he is growing it for "his own use"...but they found $6000 in cash?

I understand most people don't keep a lot of cash around but some do, who knows what the cash was for or where it came from it's not illegal to have cash in your house. When I played a lot of poker it would not be abnormal for me to have $5,000 in cash either on me or in my home. I'm not saying he wasn't selling because I don't know, I'm saying the cash could have come from anywhere.

[zulutango]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154153301991224&set=a.10150811939256224.465393.568746223&type=3&theater


For those who want to see justin getting caught lying again...media splashes he is wearing his daddy's buckskin jacket on Aboriginal day as he paddles a canoe like daddy did...only one problem....it was not daddy's jacket. They want him to be soooooooooooooooooo special they will do anything to cover for him.

[originalhypa]

So he is growing it for "his own use"...but they found $6000 in cash?

I'll admit, it's a little sketchy to have 300 grams of bud and $6000 in cash, while growing pot. Chances are he sold a little on the side, but that's my point. The Turdeau gov't has basically stated that pot isn't on their radar, and they plan to legalize it soon. If that's the case, then why no moratorium on arrests for possession of marijuana?

It's like saying they'll rescind the street racing laws in a year, but until then they're going to prosecute everyone to the full extent of the law. They promoted the idea that there is nothing wrong with possessing a little reefer in their campaign. But now that they're in power, it's status quo? At least until they get around to legalization...

There are hundreds, if not thousands of cases of folks still rotting in US prisons for marijuana charges, in states where it's legal. That's the point I was trying to make about the pot promises.

[Manic!]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154153301991224&set=a.10150811939256224.465393.568746223&type=3&theater


For those who want to see justin getting caught lying again...media splashes he is wearing his daddy's buckskin jacket on Aboriginal day as he paddles a canoe like daddy did...only one problem....it was not daddy's jacket. They want him to be soooooooooooooooooo special they will do anything to cover for him.

Really is that something to get but hurt about? His dad may have owned more than one buckskin jacket and Justin thought that was the one he wore. Did you expect him to take time out of his busy day to compare photographs or maybe you think he should have hired a a historical clothing expert on the tax payers dime. Even better he should have set up a committee to find the truth.

[MG1]

Old school Asian with lots of cash at home is pretty normal.

[zulutango]

Really is that something to get but hurt about? His dad may have owned more than one buckskin jacket and Justin thought that was the one he wore. Did you expect him to take time out of his busy day to compare photographs or maybe you think he should have hired a a historical clothing expert on the tax payers dime. Even better he should have set up a committee to find the truth.


Somehow the media who is falling all over themselves to worship him, came up with the statement that it was the one his father wore in the canoe in the photo op back then....not that it was similar to...or one of several he had owned......he never corrected them if it was untrue. The whole point of Justin's picture was to say that he WAS wearing the original jacket...IF that WAS the purpose then you would have thought he would have known that this one, of the many Pierre had worn and had left behind...was the single original. "Who wore it better" http://www.metronews.ca/views/opinion/2016/06/21/who-wore-it-better-the-iconic-trudeau-bucksin-jacket.html

[MG1]

Wow, so many posts in one thread...............

You must really love this guy. :troll:

That's okay, I understand, 'cause I have the same issue with another public figure, David Susucky.

[zulutango]

Wow, so many posts in one thread...............

You must really love this guy. :troll:

That's okay, I understand, 'cause I have the same issue with another public figure, David Susucky.


Me too. "You are not alone".
:badpokerface: