🇨🇦 Canada's only operational submarine just sank a U.S. warship

One working submarine out of four, and Ottawa still wants applause for basic military competence. Yes, HMCS Corner Brook sank the decommissioned USS Mobile Bay at RIMPAC, as reported. Good. That is what a navy is supposed to do. The absurd part is that this arrives six days after the federal government admitted only one Canadian submarine is seaworthy. One. In a country with three oceans and endless lectures from the political class about rules, partnerships, and global responsibility.

The real story is decline dressed up as readiness. Corner Brook returned only last year after running aground in 2011, with repairs and life-extension work costing hundreds of millions, and now the navy has to keep these aging boats limping along for another decade by hook or by crook. Meanwhile Ottawa celebrates multinational exercises and procurement announcements while Canada’s actual sovereign capability hangs on a single hull. Strip away the press-release perfume and it is the Trudeau-era formula again: institutional decay at home, optics abroad, and taxpayers told to clap anyway.

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