🇨🇦 Quebec finds money for everything except basic healthcare

After years of lecturing citizens about public health, Quebec is now dropping free flu shots for the general population this fall, as reported. That is the punchline of the Canadian model: endless taxes, endless bureaucracy, endless moralizing, and somehow less service every year. The state that can process DEI committees, subsidize NGO sermons, and absorb the fallout from Ottawa’s population surge suddenly cannot manage a routine seasonal program.

This is what managed decline looks like in real time. Ottawa floods the country, provinces strain under housing and healthcare pressure, and the same political class pretends the system is basically fine if you repeat compassion often enough. Quebec is not cutting freebies because it discovered fiscal discipline. It is triaging a bloated system distorted by elite priorities that put ideology, administrative empire-building, and demographic fantasy ahead of citizens who already paid for the service. Canadians were promised cradle-to-grave competence. They got rationing with a virtue lecture instead.

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