🇨🇦 Canada’s most secure prison just got Uber Eats by drone

A violent inmate in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines had McNuggets, fries, sauce and booze flown straight to his cell window at 3 a.m. in the Special Handling Unit, and Ottawa still wants Canadians to trust its security state. Even better, this happened after the federal government chopped $132 million from Correctional Service Canada’s operating budget. High-tech detection was apparently useless, the guards’ union says, and the system’s grand answer is the usual bureaucratic mush about a multi-layered approach, as reported.

Gary Anandasangaree’s Public Safety shop can’t secure the country, can’t secure the border, and now can’t even secure the prison built for the worst offenders. This is late-liberal Canada in one absurd image: the state is weak where force is needed and overbearing where ideology is needed. Netting is too practical, accountability is too impolite, and taxpayers are funding a farce where even maximum security looks like a parody of sovereign government.

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