🇨🇦 Ottawa can print gore on cigarettes, but not competence on policy

By August 1, Ottawa will force 13 new graphic warnings onto cigarette packs, complete with bloody urine, cancerous tongues, and flap inserts preaching the virtues of quitting, as reported. Health Canada says tobacco kills 48,000 Canadians a year, yet the federal state still behaves like a nanny with a printing press rather than a government with adult priorities. They even brag about six messages printed on individual cigarettes, because apparently bureaucracy now needs to sermonize one puff at a time.

This is the Trudeau-era governing instinct in one frame: maximal intrusion, theatrical moralizing, zero restraint. The same class that can regulate cardboard, foil, and cigarette paper down to the flap somehow never finds this zeal when borders, fentanyl, housing, or cultural cohesion are on the line. Canada was first to slap images on packs in 2001, then again in 2012, 2024, and now another rotation through 2035. Endless state messaging, endless experts, endless behavior management. A country treated less like a nation and more like a lab rat.

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