🇨🇦 Recovery centre or insider bazaar

Alberta allegedly steered a recovery-centre project toward a company linked to Sam Mraiche, because apparently even addiction treatment now needs the full Canadian elite package of friends, fixers and politically convenient middlemen. The lawyer’s claim, reported, is the familiar scam dressed up as public service: taxpayers fund it, insiders route it, and citizens are told to clap because the bureaucracy says it is compassionate.

This is what late-stage Canadian governance looks like from Ottawa to the provinces: managerial class networks carving up public money while the country gets lectures about transparency, equity and trust in institutions. Whether the allegation survives court is one issue; the deeper rot is the same one Canadians know by heart. Procurement is no longer about merit or national interest but access, relationships and the permanent consultant-political blob. They call it partnership. Normal people call it exactly what it looks like.

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