Many people enjoyed a free breakfast on Saturday at Windsor, Ont.‘s restaurant, Toast, as an unknown American couple paid for everyone’s bill. The gesture acted as an apology for the rift between Canada and the U.S.

Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    91·
    19 hours ago

    Why not? While our government is treating other countries and their people worse, it’s not as uncalled for. While most of the chaos is self-instigated for very little reason, there’s just no logic to attacking Canada and so many reasons not to.

    It’s like saying we have a nice neighbor who we’ve always got along with and who always helps out, but it’s not worth apologizing for spitting in their face for no reason, because we started a fire at that house down the street with the family whose customs we don’t understand

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      62·
      17 hours ago

      I didn’t mean an apology isn’t owed, I meant there’s a very long line of people waiting.

      • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        16 hours ago

        but they aren’t first world nations that talk about it on Lemmy so they aren’t as important.

        /s