🇨🇦 Ottawa suddenly discovers federalism when billions are on the table

Quebec and Newfoundland finally struck a tentative Churchill Falls deal, and of course Ottawa had to hover over it like a self-important hall monitor. The absurd part is not the agreement itself, but the ritual: provinces negotiate their own resource future, then the federal centre swoops in for credit while doing everything else possible to sabotage Canadian energy. Even this reported breakthrough comes with an asterisk, because Quebec’s next election and a possible Parti Québécois government could jam the whole thing.

That is modern Canada in one frame: world-class hydro, billions at stake, and the political class still can’t deliver certainty inside its own borders. Trudeau-era Ottawa spent years sermonizing about climate virtue while kneecapping pipelines, centralizing power, and turning national development into a hostage situation for lawyers, activists, and separatist moods. Instead of building a sovereign energy powerhouse from Labrador to Alberta, this country treats every strategic asset like a constitutional therapy session. No wonder serious nations eat our lunch.

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