🇨🇦 Private property, until the grievance industry objects

John Risley asks a Nova Scotia court to approve an asset sale to a New York private equity firm, and suddenly the new doctrine is that Indigenous communities should have a say over what is being sold because some items are described as cultural objects. Not stolen goods, not court-proven contraband, just another elastic category waiting to swallow property rights whole, as reported. Welcome to modern Canada, where ownership is conditional and every transaction needs ritual approval from activists, experts, and whatever bureaucratic priesthood is fashionable this week.

The bigger joke is sovereignty. Ottawa lectures Canadians about rules and institutions, yet our elite are perfectly happy turning domestic law into a patchwork of identity vetoes while the assets themselves can be shipped to a New York buyer. So ordinary Canadians get less certainty, foreign capital gets the goods, and the consultancy class gets another excuse to meddle. This is what Trudeau-era moral theatre always produces: weaker property rights, weaker national coherence, and more power for unelected gatekeepers.

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