🇨🇦 Beef up 13 percent, and Ottawa still calls this food security

Fresh or frozen beef is up almost 13 percent year over year, and 62.6 percent since 2021, while the geniuses in Ottawa are still pitching process fixes as Canadians get priced out of their own dinner table. The cattle herd sits at 11.1 million, demand is the strongest since the early 1980s, and exporters can get top dollar abroad, as reported. Translation: Canadian families come last in a system designed to serve markets, bureaucracy, and everyone except the people paying the grocery bill.

And what is the federal answer to this very Canadian failure. More chatter about interprovincial barriers, more programs, more years of waiting while ranchers rebuild herds on a three-year horizon. Trudeau-era Canada managed to turn a country with land, cattle, and producers into a place where steak is edging toward luxury status. This is what managed decline looks like: sovereign capacity strangled by regulation, supply distorted by policy, and a government that discovers common sense only after the shelves and wallets are already empty.

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