🇨🇦 Four people froze to death and Ottawa still cannot find enough staff

Nearly five years after the Patel family died 12 metres from the U.S. border, RCMP is still blaming resourcing challenges, competing priorities and border deployments for the crawl of an investigation that should have been a national scandal on day one. One driver was only arrested in February 2026, while Fenil Patel was picked up on a U.S. extradition request, not because Canada suddenly discovered urgency. The warrant documents confirmed what everyone already suspects: our border system is reactive, understaffed and run like a paperwork cult.

This is what elite-managed migration looks like in the real world. The same ruling class that moralizes about compassion cannot police a deadly smuggling corridor, cannot prosecute on time, and cannot even keep a border unit properly manned. They flood the country with loopholes, then act shocked when criminal networks monetize them. Sovereignty is not a slogan. It is the basic duty to control who enters, who moves, and who profits from the chaos Trudeau-era governance normalized.

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