🇨🇦 Severe, but apparently not enough to panic the geniuses

A $402-billion hit over a decade and a 1.6% GDP loss is now being sold as merely severe but not cataclysmic. That is the level of elite brain rot in Ottawa-adjacent economics. The same class that cheered deindustrialization, carbon taxes, and dependence on Washington now wants Canadians to stay calm because the house fire is only in the kitchen. Deloitte reported that a USMCA collapse would hammer exporters, but the real story is our ruling class built an economy so fragile that one American political mood swing can wipe out hundreds of billions.

This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in practice. Trudeau-era management hollowed out productivity, throttled resource power, and replaced national strategy with globalist sermonizing. Canada should be an energy, manufacturing, and food superpower with leverage. Instead, we are a compliant branch plant praying the U.S. keeps the paperwork intact. When your economic model depends on foreign goodwill and consultant spin, you do not have resilience. You have managed decline with better branding.

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