🇨🇦 Ottawa discovers defence after gutting it for a decade

After years of sermonizing about climate, DEI and feelings, Ottawa is now staging a drone-killing Sandbox in Alberta and dangling a $1 million prize like that somehow makes up for a hollowed-out military. Two dozen firms showed up at CFB Suffield while Ukrainian officers explained what actual war looks like, as reported. Translation: Canada waited until foreign battlefields rewrote modern warfare before realizing procurement theatre and powerpoint patriotism do not stop drones.

The real absurdity is that this country can suddenly turbocharge an industrial policy when the state wants another security bureaucracy, but Canadians are still told there is no capacity for housing, border control or basic sovereignty. British troops leave by 2024, then come back in smaller numbers to help us relearn defence on our own soil. That is the Trudeau legacy in one frame: dependence sold as partnership, delay sold as innovation, and national weakness repackaged as a sandbox exercise under sunny Alberta skies.

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