Matt Gurney: Canada’s Normal Just Isn’t Good Enough

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Mar 25, 2026 · 9m

Canadian government inefficiency is not really about failure. It is about expectation. Matt Gurney has one example that makes that distinction impossible to ignore: Canada and the UK both needed new military pistols. The UK did it in two years for 20 million pounds. Canada spent a hundred million dollars staffing an office on a ten-year timeline and called that the plan.

What does it feel like to realize a problem you assumed was about execution is actually about imagination? The British knew they could do it faster and cheaper. It did not occur to Canada to try. That is the sentence that…