🇨🇦 $100 million in relief after Ottawa helped rig the damage

Manitoba is throwing $100 million at local businesses for tariff relief, which is a nice way of admitting the political class helped build an economy so fragile that one trade shock now requires taxpayer-funded triage. The province gets to play saviour after years of Ottawa-managed decline, overregulation, and supply-chain dependency hollowed out real productive capacity. As reported, this is relief for businesses caught in the crossfire, meaning the people who actually make things get punished first and compensated last.

This is the Trudeau-era model in miniature: surrender leverage, preach resilience, then shovel public money around when the bill comes due. No serious national industrial strategy, no real sovereignty, no appetite to protect Canadian producers before the crisis hits. Just emergency cash, media applause, and another reminder that provinces are left mopping up after federal vanity politics and globalist trade fantasies collide with reality. If your economy needs constant rescue packages, you do not have a plan. You have a decline manager.

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