🇨🇦 Ottawa finds its spine only when Beijing might approve

After nearly 20 years of hosting Shen Yun, the National Arts Centre suddenly slaps an indefinite halt on the show and now gets dragged to Federal Court, as reported. Funny how Canada’s cultural gatekeepers never run out of red carpets for regime-friendly slop, but a production linked to Falun Gong becomes too inconvenient. In Trudeau’s Ottawa, free expression is always conditional, especially when foreign pressure, bureaucratic cowardice, and elite moral posing can be blended into one tidy censorship cocktail.

The real story is sovereignty rot. Our national institutions act less like guardians of Canadian liberty and more like nervous middle managers in a global compliance office. The NAC hosted Shen Yun for almost two decades, so spare us the sudden concern theatre. This is what a hollow state looks like: terrified of controversy, allergic to principle, and perfectly willing to chill speech if it keeps the right people in the transnational class comfortable. Canada keeps bragging about values while its institutions fold at the first whiff of pressure.

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