🇨🇦 Winnipeg loses a U.S. consulate while Ottawa keeps the power

The sharpest detail here is not the closure itself. It is that Washington is folding Winnipeg into Ottawa, because even the Americans can see how absurdly centralized Canada has become. The U.S. is shutting its only consulate closure in North America in phases, calling it efficient resource management, as reported. Translation: deal with the Laurentian bureaucracy and forget the Prairies. So much for the fantasy that Manitoba matters to the people running continental trade and diplomacy.

Then comes the local comedy. Wab Kinew postures about Trump, calls him Enemy No. 1, bans U.S. booze, and still expects influence in Washington. Meanwhile Manitoba taxpayers are shelling out nearly $1 million a year for a Washington trade office while a real U.S. presence in Winnipeg disappears. That is Trudeau-era Canada in miniature: less sovereignty, less leverage, more bureaucracy, more symbolism. The West gets managed from Ottawa, lectured by globalist middlemen, and told this is smart diplomacy.

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