🇨🇦 Canada can fit armour for Ukraine, but not priorities at home

Ottawa-era Canada can somehow help outfit 10,000-plus women in combat in Ukraine with Canadian-designed body armour, while Canadians at home get collapsing procurement, hollowed-out defence, and a government that treats sovereignty like a clearance item. The reported numbers say the U.K. donated 2,000 sets using plates from NP Aerospace and carriers from Logistik Unicorp, because of course our industrial competence only becomes urgent once it serves the foreign-policy vanity circuit.

The real punchline is that even this story has to be filtered through the liberal religion of optics: female-specific kit as a moral spectacle, not a warning about what modern states are supposed to do first, which is defend their own people and their own borders. Canada still can’t secure its streets, its military readiness, or its demographic future, but it can posture as the helpful middle power in someone else’s trench war. Trudeauism in one frame: bankrupt at home, performative abroad, and always available for the next globalist applause line.

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