🇨🇦 Ottawa suddenly finds billions when Quebec votes

Funny how Mark Carney’s Ottawa spent years stonewalling Quebec, then as soon as the PQ leads in polls, the chequebook explodes. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon points to $11 billion for Davie, $4.7 billion for train cars in La Pocatière, and a blitz of federal attention right before the Oct. 5 vote, as reported. But sure, total coincidence. The same federal class that lectures everyone about defending democracy now expects Quebecers to believe election-season cash drops are just patriotic bookkeeping.

Christine Fréchette says she does not work for Ottawa while happily campaigning beside Ottawa’s conveniently timed largesse. That is the Canadian model in one sentence: centralize power, dangle money, deny the strings. Whether you love or hate the PQ is beside the point. When the federal machine starts moving billions to shape provincial outcomes, that is not partnership. That is managed democracy, Carney-style, with sovereignty treated like a branding problem to be bought off before voters notice.

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