🇨🇦 2,422 expected, 2 registered: Ottawa’s foreign-agent circus

After two-and-a-half years, Trudeau’s security state masterpiece produced a foreign influence registry with two public entries, about 30 last-minute filings, two privacy breaches, and an IT system so amateurish officials called it a minimum viable product. That is not transparency. That is a taxpayer-funded farce, as reported. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree skipped committee, naturally. When the numbers are this embarrassing, the script is delay, deflect, and mumble about consequences of the law.

Michael Cooper is right to call it in shambles, but the deeper point is even uglier: this government loves the theatre of protecting democracy far more than the reality of enforcing anything. Ottawa can micromanage speech, police online dissent, and bankroll endless DEI bureaucracy, yet somehow cannot build a working registry for foreign-backed influence in Canadian politics. Sovereignty under the Trudeau era means porous borders, outsourced policymaking, and bureaucrats congratulating themselves while the house is open.

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