🇨🇦 250 evacuees, eight weeks, and Ottawa just started

A community of fewer than 400 had to send more than 250 vulnerable residents to a Toronto hotel because its only nursing station suffered a sewage spill, and remediation only just began nearly eight weeks later, as reported. This is the same country that can process endless consultant contracts, DEI offices, and newcomer settlement schemes on command, but cannot keep one basic health facility operational in northern Ontario. Last year it was another three-month evacuation over flood damage and fuel smell. This is not compassion. It is managerial rot with a land acknowledgement script.

Neskantaga sits 440 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, inside a state that lectures citizens about reconciliation while delivering hotel exile, portable schools, and a temporary clinic fit for bandages and painkillers. Trudeau-era governance in one image: lots of symbolism, no capacity. When sovereignty is hollowed out by bureaucracy, ideology, and performative spending, Canadians get a government that can stage virtue but not build, fix, or protect.

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