🇨🇦 Another B.C. town told to run while the state manages decline

Clinton, B.C. is under evacuation order as an aggressive wildfire moves in, with nearby homes already on alert, as reported. This is the modern Canadian model in one scene: rural citizens pack up and flee while governments that can lecture endlessly about climate virtue somehow never manage basic land stewardship, fire breaks, or resilient local infrastructure. Plenty of carbon sermons, not nearly enough actual state capacity.

For a decade, Ottawa and its provincial cousins have poured energy into symbolic politics, consultant-class priorities, and global branding exercises while the physical country is left brittle. The people paying for it are the ones outside the Laurentian bubble, the ones expected to absorb every policy fad and then evacuate when predictable failures hit. Canada is becoming a place where sovereignty is performative, competence is optional, and ordinary communities get the emergency alert instead of serious protection.

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