🇨🇦 Ottawa wants obedience after years of weakness

Now the line is that premiers must give Ottawa leeway to negotiate from a position of strength. Strength. After Mark Carney’s crew spent years hollowing out competitiveness, strangling energy, and lecturing provinces on unity while Washington prepares 50 per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods. The same federal class that cannot secure the border, build pipelines, or defend domestic industry now wants political licence and social licence to cut a grand bargain behind closed doors, as reported.

The farce is obvious. Carney rules out using oil exports, our biggest real lever, then pretends Canada has other things at its disposal. Other things meaning what, more managerial jargon from Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette in Washington while provinces are told to sit down and clap. Alberta and the provinces are being asked to trust the same central machine that traded away sovereignty piece by piece under Trudeau-era orthodoxy. National interest starts with productive power, energy independence, and provinces refusing to be props for Ottawa’s latest damage-control performance.

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