After seeing him on a few occasions I actually thought there would be hope that the entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well and that there were still people that had dreams and were driven enough to work hard instead of asking for a hand out or simply being a cog in the system at some government agency or worse, in real-estate. After all, this kid was doing what Jim Pattison, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet did before him – he was working hard, harming no one, and following a vision, and I might add with little or no help from the system around him.

Of course, I was wrong to think that this beacon of hard-work and determination could last!

But despite my personal feelings I will say that I find it hard to believe that “ambitious” employees of the city of port coquitlam, and/or “highly skilled” RCMP officers used paid time to locate, process the necessary paperwork, and then proceed to shut-down a child’s lemonade stand. The complete shock of this makes me wonder if there is anything sacred. Surely there must be better uses of government employee time – like checking facebook accounts, converging on a local eatery for lunch, or attending a “team-building” seminar.

What I find most shocking is that civil servants managed to find time to shut down the lemonade stand while working inside of a grueling 37.5 hour work week. I pray no civil servants were injured or exhausted with the added work that young Mackenzie caused them.

I end this rant with words for Mackenzie by Henry Ford : ” There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”- you just survived your first little problem, keep going!!!

Don’t know about you guys, but we’re gonna be mixing up some lavender lemonade this weekend. It’s surprisingly simple to make!