🇨🇦 Ottawa discovers steel matters after selling the country off

Mélanie Joly is suddenly threatening penalties if Cleveland-Cliffs cuts Ontario jobs at Stelco, as reported. Cute. The same federal class that spent years lecturing Canadians about the post-national economy now wants to sound like defenders of industrial sovereignty after foreign ownership, open-border labour schemes, and energy sabotage hollowed out our manufacturing base. Ottawa always wakes up after the factory floor is already on fire.

This is the Trudeau-era formula in one scene: deindustrialize at home, overregulate everything that still produces, then issue stern press-release warnings when an American steelmaker treats Canadian jobs as disposable. Stelco is not just a labour story. It is what happens when a country governed by Davos clichés forgets that steel, power, and domestic production are national-security assets. Canada cannot mass-import consumers, crush competitiveness, and outsource strategic industry, then pretend a ministerial scolding is economic policy. A sovereign country protects capacity before the layoffs start.

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