🇨🇦 2,422 expected, 2 registered

After two and a half years, Ottawa’s grand foreign influence registry has produced a majestic total of two public entries. Two. Out of a projected 2,422 individuals or entities. That is not enforcement, that is federal performance art with a taxpayer-funded server crash on the side. Even better, the new office managed two privacy breaches and multiple IT failures almost immediately, because Public Safety rolled out a minimum viable product, as reported. Banana republic competence, G7 price tag.

Gary Anandasangaree ducked committee, naturally. This is the Trudeau-era governing formula in one neat package: endless moral lectures about protecting democracy, followed by amateur-hour bureaucracy when actual state capacity is required. Ottawa can track your speech, regulate your heating, and sermonize about disinformation, but somehow cannot build a functioning registry for foreign lobbying after years of warning about interference. Maybe because this class of politicians prefers managing narratives to defending sovereignty. Canada gets theatre, breaches, and excuses while the country is picked apart by elites who only discover urgency when cameras are rolling.

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