🇨🇦 Metro Vancouver can import millions, but can’t staff its own parks

More than 100 workers walked off at 25 Metro Vancouver regional parks after 18 months without a collective agreement, leaving a skeletal presence of just 15 essential staff while bureaucrats chirp that parks remain open and everyone should keep enjoying them, as reported. That is late-stage Canadian governance in one sentence: services hollowed out, reality papered over, public told not to notice.

The union points to contracting out, safety problems, and failure to retain skilled workers. Of course. Canada’s ruling class has spent a decade worshipping cheap labour, bloated administration, and ideological box-ticking while the people who actually keep infrastructure functioning get squeezed. Metro Vancouver can sermonize about growth, diversity, and regional planning, but apparently it cannot secure enough workers to clean parks, maintain trails, or provide first aid without a labour showdown. This is what managed decline looks like at the municipal level: endless expansion, imported demand, and collapsing capacity for basic civic maintenance.

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