🇨🇦 Canada can import millions, but not buy water bombers

Doug Ford is calling for 60 water bombers as part of a national wildfire strategy, which tells you everything about Ottawa’s priorities. The federal machine can shovel endless billions into migration intake, consultant scams, green virtue theatre and foreign commitments, but when Canadian towns burn, suddenly the country discovers logistics, procurement delays and jurisdictional confusion. Ford is late to the party, but he is still exposing a system that treats basic state capacity like an optional add-on, as reported.

This is the Trudeau era in one neat snapshot: a government obsessed with global branding and climate sermons while neglecting the boring sovereign duties of actually protecting citizens, infrastructure and territory. A serious country maintains domestic firefighting capacity before lecturing the world at summits. Instead, Canada gets elite incompetence wrapped in moral vanity, then provincial leaders scramble for practical tools after the smoke rolls in. National strategy should mean readiness, not another federal photo op and a press release written for Davos interns.

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