Red 🍁

I feel kind of bad for anyone who fought for Canada in the last 30 years. You went overseas believing you were defending a free, functional country with shared values, competent institutions, and a future worth the risk. You did the job. The politicians and the Ottawa machine that sent you didn’t hold up their end. Instead we got chronic underfunding and readiness problems in the armed forces, a focus on ideology over capability, veterans having to fight for basic benefits, borders that don’t function, massive debt, housing that most young people can’t touch, inflation, and a steady erosion of the social cohesion the country used to take for granted. By every standard, the Canada that exists now is measurably worse on all of the metrics that matter to ordinary people than the one you were defending. This is not an attack on soldiers, sailors, or anyone who served. Your service was real. The betrayal is from the political class and the institutions that treated the country as a personal project to be redesigned rather than something worth preserving. You did your part. The government didn’t do theirs.