Nicolas Couture, owner of four TIMBER MART stores, remembers the day the Quebec government announced its first Covid-related lockdown. “At four o’clock, they announced the list of essential services, and we weren’t on it. I drove to [TIMBER MART] headquarters, poured a huge glass of whisky, and said: ‘That’s it, we’re going to war now’”.
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