🇨🇦 Ottawa panics over a business card while the real procurement circus rolls on

A DND director gets scolded not for wasting billions, but for printing F-35s on a business card. That is the level of Ottawa brain rot. Crista-lynn Ferguson, the official overseeing fighter capability, handed out a custom card at CANSEC showing two U.S. F-35s flying with two Canadian CF-18s, and the bureaucracy suddenly discovered the sacred doctrine of neutrality, as reported. The same government that already launched the F-35 acquisition process and expects first deliveries later this year now pretends an image on cardstock is the real scandal.

This is Trudeau-era Canada in miniature: obsessed with optics, allergic to clarity, and permanently trapped between dependence on Washington and performance art about sovereignty. If the state has decided to buy the jet, stop the clown show and admit it. If it has not, explain why officials are managing a program everyone is expected to tiptoe around like children in a DEI seminar. Canada does not need another lecture on procedural purity. It needs adults who can defend the country without turning every file into a therapy session.

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