🇨🇦 Canada can stage an air show, but not maintain its own jets

The Snowbirds just roared over Toronto in what may be one of their last flights before the fleet is grounded until the 2030s, because apparently a G7 country can still do symbolic flyovers but cannot replace aging aircraft on time. The CT-114 Tutor first flew in the early 1960s, and Ottawa has dragged this out so long that a national aerobatics team is now operating on nostalgia and duct tape. Even reported as a sentimental farewell, it is really a portrait of managed decline.

This is Trudeau-era Canada in one frame: endless cash for consultants, climate theatre, DEI bureaucracy and imported population growth, but somehow no urgency for basic sovereign capability. A serious country does not let iconic military assets limp toward retirement with no replacement ready for years. We are told to celebrate diversity, trust global governance and lower our expectations, while the state cannot even keep a small demonstration squadron airborne. That is not modernization. That is a hollowed-out nation pretending vibes are strategy.

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