🇨🇦 200 controllers short, so Ottawa’s answer is air traffic by webcam

Nav Canada is short about 200 controllers and the genius fix is a digital tower in Kingston that can run Hamilton from 300 kilometres away, with plans to centralize 10 to 15 airports in one site. That is not resilience. That is a single point of failure dressed up as innovation. As reported, executives are selling remote control of Canadian airspace as flexibility while quietly admitting the real problem is staffing and recruitment.

This is late-stage Trudeau Canada in one neat package: shortages created by elite mismanagement, then a shiny technocratic workaround sold as the future. A camera mast and 12 screens become the substitute for local capacity, local jobs and actual redundancy. The sales pitch is pure globalist management culture: centralize, automate, reassure the public, and call every downgrade modernization. When the system gets more brittle, the same people will say nobody could have foreseen it. Canada does not need more remote-control governance, in airports or anywhere else.

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