🇨🇦 Canada had a defence chief who nearly quit several times, and Ottawa still pretended everything was fine

Wayne Eyre says Trudeau’s government moved at nowhere near the speed of war, and that is the whole Trudeau legacy in one sentence. A collapsing military, a sexual misconduct scandal rotting the chain of command, and Chrystia Freeland publicly kneecapping the top general while the PM played cleanup afterward. Eyre says he felt thrown under the bus and almost resigned. As reported, he stayed because Ottawa was already in institutional free fall.

This is what post-national management looks like: endless virtue lectures, zero state capacity. Billions for global cosplay in Ukraine, endless talking points about democracy, but Canada cannot make decisions, rebuild readiness, or maintain trust between civilians and the armed forces. Freeland and Trudeau wanted the optics of command without the burden of competence. A serious country does not treat national defence like a faculty lounge dispute. Trudeau’s gang did, and now the shell is cracking in public.

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