🇨🇦 WestJet chaos is what managed decline looks like

A country that cannot keep planes in the air during peak travel season is not a serious country. WestJet started cancelling flights before the strike deadline even hit, leaving Canadians stranded while executives, unions and Ottawa all play their little procedural games, as reported. This is the Trudeau-era formula in one neat package: weak infrastructure, brittle supply chains, inflated costs, and ordinary people told to be patient while the system visibly stops working.

And no, this is not just an airline spat. It is another symptom of a hollowed-out Canada where basic competence is now a luxury item. Elites lecture us about post-national virtue, net-zero fantasies and global mobility, but the actual national transportation network can be thrown into limbo overnight. Alberta built WestJet into a national carrier, and now Canadians get uncertainty, cancellations and corporate-union brinkmanship dressed up as normal market turbulence. Sovereignty starts with functioning essentials. If your own citizens cannot reliably move across their own country, the state is failing long before the press gallery admits it.

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