🇨🇦 Fast-tracked, but never straightforward

Ottawa and Queen’s Park want nuclear expansion on a stopwatch, yet the country they hollowed out with endless process now demands even more process. Eagle Lake First Nation is reminding the political class that a fast-tracked deep geological repository in northwestern Ontario still has to meet its conditions, as reported. That is the absurd Canadian model in one frame: governments preach urgency on energy, then act shocked when overlapping veto points, consultation rituals and bureaucratic theatre slow everything to a crawl.

The deeper problem is a state that cannot act like a sovereign country anymore. We are told nuclear power is essential for electrification, AI data centres and the green fantasy, but every major project gets trapped between activist lawfare, federal virtue signalling and provincial half-measures. Trudeau-era governance turned Canada into a permission-slip civilization. If Ontario wants reliable baseload and real industrial policy, it needs clarity, timelines and national-interest decision-making, not another endless sermon from the managerial class about reconciliation while the lights get more expensive.

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