🇨🇦 Montreal City Hall Thinks It Runs Foreign Policy

Montreal can barely manage potholes, homelessness and public order, but now city council wants to grandstand over Israel. That is the level of municipal narcissism on display: a local government funded by Canadian taxpayers pretending it is a mini foreign ministry. The motion to suspend institutional ties with the Israeli government, as reported, tells you everything about elite priorities in 2026 Canada.

This is what mass-imported political conflict looks like when weak politicians surrender the civic sphere. Instead of defending social cohesion and local interests, Montreal’s ruling class performs for activist blocs and imported grievances. Trudeau-era Canada taught every bureaucracy to worship symbolism, division and moral preening while basic governance rots. A sovereign country does not let municipal councils become pressure chambers for global ideological theatre. City hall should serve Montrealers, not cosplay at geopolitics while the country’s cohesion gets chipped away by cowardice, demographic fragmentation and political vanity.

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