🇨🇦 Ottawa blocks growth, obeys activists

Ontario is accusing Ottawa of kneeling to a small fringe group over Billy Bishop expansion, and for once Queen’s Park is not wrong. Canada’s largest city is choking on congestion, Pearson is overstretched, and the federal answer is to cripple a downtown airport because a boutique coalition of waterfront complainers throws a fit, as reported. This is modern Canada in one neat little box: infrastructure policy dictated by ideology, vanity politics, and whoever screams loudest in the approved urban postcode.

The deeper story is the same Trudeau-era disease everywhere else: Ottawa talks endlessly about growth, competitiveness and productivity, then sabotages actual capacity when it matters. We import millions, jam housing, roads, schools and hospitals past the breaking point, then refuse to expand transport links in the country’s economic core. Brilliant plan. A sovereign country builds for its own citizens and its own commerce. Our federal class would rather posture for activist approval than act like adults running a G7 nation.

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