🇨🇦 They spent the summer infecting trees and called it conservation

Only in the expert class does deliberately injecting thousands of elm trees with Dutch elm disease count as stewardship. Vermont researchers are spreading the very fungus that wiped out urban canopies across Canada and the U.S., hoping survivor-bred elms might resist it, as reported. Fredericton lost an estimated 10,000 elms and has roughly 1,000 mature trees left. Ottawa watched its stately canopy collapse decades ago. Alberta and Saskatchewan are now on alert while the managerial class responds with another laboratory gamble dressed up as science.

This is the Trudeau-era mindset in miniature: let decline happen, then hand it over to technocrats, NGOs and cross-border institutions to tinker with the ruins. No talk of hard national containment, municipal discipline, or rebuilding resilient local ecosystems under Canadian control. Just another faith-based sermon that experts who helped normalize failure will engineer us back out of it. Sovereignty is not only borders and trade. It is whether a country can protect its own landscape without outsourcing common sense to a permanent class of grant-fed experimenters.

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