🇨🇦 Three gang shootings beside schools and the state suddenly notices

Fort St. John took three targeted shootings in less than a month, all within a block of elementary and middle schools, before Mayor Lilia Hansen begged Victoria for the gang task force. That is the modern Canadian script: wait for bullets in family neighbourhoods, then announce concern and more inter-agency coordination. RCMP still have suspects at large, despite one man already charged from the July 22 attack, as reported.

This is what elite governance looks like after years of soft courts, porous priorities, and endless lectures about inclusion while basic order collapses. Parents are told to trust the process as their kids walk past bullet-riddled homes on the way to school. Small-town B.C. is now getting the big-city gang import package, and the answer from the system is always reactive, never preventive. Ottawa and the provinces can fund every fashionable bureaucracy under the sun, but keeping armed thugs off Canadian streets remains somehow complicated. Sovereignty starts with public safety, not press releases and task forces after the damage is done.

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