🇨🇦 Ottawa suddenly discovers pride after years of national demolition

The funniest part is not that Pete Hegseth mocked Canada’s cadet program. It’s that the same political class now clutching pearls spent years hollowing out military culture, flooding every institution with DEI sludge, and treating patriotism like a pathology. Now we get bipartisan outrage because an American noticed the obvious. As reported, politicians across the spectrum rushed to defend the cadets, as if slogans can reverse a decade of neglect.

The cadet program itself is not the problem. The problem is a ruling class that wants ceremonial nationalism without sovereign seriousness. Trudeau-era Canada has money for consultants, climate posturing, and imported social fragmentation, but not for restoring real national confidence, disciplined institutions, or a military ethos that serves Canadians first. When outsiders sneer, Ottawa performs wounded dignity. Maybe stop turning the country into a managerial playground and start acting like a nation worth defending.

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