This is quite the Timbit.

The chain has filed a 105 million dollar law suit against CFRB (Toronto) staff announcer Bill Carroll, Standard Broadcasting and Canwest for false and defamatory statements.

In his Nov. 1, 2006, radio broadcast, Carroll said: “If Tim Hortons wants to have a franchise in Afghanistan, it’s a pretty good public relations gesture … Then let them pay for it.”

In a Global TV commentary, he said: “Tim Hortons has been sliding by on the great publicity about the Kandahar franchise all these months and then Global uncovers the dirty little secret. You and I, the taxpayers, are picking up $4 or 5 million dollars a year so that they can look good to the public … Shame on Tim Hortons.”

Media reports that alleged the company was pocketing $2 to $5 million in annual operating subsidies were “false and defamatory,” states the claim by Tim Hortons.

Tim Horton’s says the statements “misled the Canadian public to believe the Afghanistan outlet was established and operated without any financial contribution from the Government of Canada.”

Your order comes to 105 million, drive through please.