I am livid': Maple Leaf Foods CEO spouts off against U.S. over Iran crash
The chief executive of Maple Leaf Foods ($MFI.TO) took to Twitter on Sunday night to spout off against the United States government, in the wake of the Iranian missile strike of Ukrainian International Airlines flight 752 that killed 176 people, including the relatives of a Maple Leaf Foods employee.
In a series of tweets published on Sunday on the Maple Leaf Foods official Twitter account, CEO Michael McCain expressed anger over the deaths of those aboard Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, saying “Canadians needlessly loss their lives in the crossfire.”
McCain lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump without directly naming him, referring to “a narcissist in Washington” that “tears world accomplishments apart.” He also alluded to the ongoing tensions between the United States and Iran and the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, referring to “an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes.” Trump was impeached last month by the U.S. House of Representatives.
I’m Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and these are personal reflections. I am very angry, and time isn’t making me less angry. A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran...
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…U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes. The world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction…
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…U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes. The world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction…
..A narcissist in Washington tears world accomplishments apart; destabilizes region. US now unwelcomed everywhere in the area including Iraq; tensions escalated to feverish pitch. Taking out despicable military leader terrorist? There are a hundred like him, standing next in line
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..A narcissist in Washington tears world accomplishments apart; destabilizes region. US now unwelcomed everywhere in the area including Iraq; tensions escalated to feverish pitch. Taking out despicable military leader terrorist? There are a hundred like him, standing next in line
…The collateral damage of this irresponsible, dangerous, ill-conceived behavior? 63 Canadians needlessly lost their lives in the crossfire, including the family of one of my MLF colleagues (his wife + 11 year old son)! We are mourning and I am livid. Michael McCain.
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Janet Riley, the vice president of communications and public affairs at Maple Leaf Foods, confirmed the authenticity of the tweets on Sunday. In response to an interview request from Yahoo Finance Canada, Riley said that McCain “would prefer to let the messages in his tweets speak for themselves.”
“He felt the tragedy warranted his response,” Riley wrote in an email. She would not confirm the identities of the victims related to a Maple Leaf Foods employee, citing the family’s need for privacy.
McCain’s emotionally-charged tweets have surprised many, who are not used to seeing CEOs communicate in such a way.
“I cannot think of another CEO in Canada doing something like this ever before,” Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University professor who has worked alongside McCain and Maple Leaf Foods, said in an interview.
“For a publicly traded company, the risks are real… and knowing Maple Leaf Foods’ expansion plans in the U.S., you can only appreciate how risky a message like that is, given how it could be perceived by Americans.”
Last year, Maple Leaf Foods announced plans to construct a $310-million plant-based protein food processing facility in Shelbyville, Indiana. The company said the facility will be the largest investment of its kind in North America.
It was last Wednesday when an Iranian missile shot down the Ukrainian airline flight and killed all 176 people on board, including 57 Canadians. It was initially thought that 63 Canadians were killed on the flight, but Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne updated that number on Friday. Of the 176 victims, 138 were headed to Canada.
Iran admitted late Friday that its military “unintentionally” shot the plane down, and blamed “human error” for the strike.
McCain has been CEO of Maple Leaf Foods since 1999. The company is worth approximately $3.13 billion, based on market capitalization. It company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and operates in Canada, the United States and Asia, employing approximately 12,500 people.
Iran is mobbed up with Russia and corporate scum in America is mobbed up with Trump and Russia. Enemies of the United States should be shot on site.
ReplyDeleteThat would mean that every Trump supporter should be shot on site
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