THE GREAT CANADIAN OSTRICH KILL

LATE THE OTHER NIGHT, RCMP SNIPERS KILLED 300 PLUS HEALTHY OSTRICHES, REMOVING A POSSIBLE LIVING BIOLOGY LAB OF POSSIBLE IMMUNITY TO H1N5 VIRUS.

“Canada Burned the Cure Before Asking What It Was”

There is a moment in public policy where incompetence crosses the line into something worse: indifference to the public good. The Edgewood ostrich cull is that moment for Canada.

For nearly a year, the federal government insisted it was protecting Canadians from a biohazard. But if H5N1 was truly the existential threat CFIA claimed, why did the state sit on its hands for eleven months before acting? Why did they block scientists, refuse to test living birds, prevent serological sampling, and destroy every egg, every tissue, every shred of genetic material before a single independent researcher could even look at them?

The answer is as simple as it is damning:

Canada valued international trade protocols more than Canadian science, Canadian agriculture, and Canadian public health.

The ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms weren’t just livestock—they were a naturally immunized population. The kind of rare, real-world immunity event that epidemiologists spend careers hoping to study. These birds survived exposure, stopped dying, and were producing antibodies. In the middle of a global H5N1 surge, this flock was potentially a gold mine of biological insights.

And what did the government do?

It killed every one of them without a single scientific test.Not a blood panel.Not a live-bird antibody screen.Not a genomic sequence.Nothing.

The world’s leading virologists would have begged for access to a naturally immune population. Canada buried it in a landfill.

This wasn’t science.This wasn’t health policy.And it certainly wasn’t leadership.

This was blind adherence to a bureaucratic doctrine—“stamping out”—a policy written for commodity chickens in the 1990s, applied in the 2020s to a rare, genetically valuable ostrich population in the middle of a mutating, globalized avian-flu environment.

While other nations are researching monoclonal antibodies, cross-species immunity, and vaccine development, Canada has chosen the one approach guaranteed to produce no knowledge, no preparedness, and no progress: destroy first, explain never.

Politically, the message is unmistakable:

Canadian science is subordinate to international compliance.Canadian farmers are expendable.And Canada is willing to burn a possible cure before it bothers to ask if it’s useful.

This is what happens when technocrats confuse “policy” with “wisdom.”They follow the manual even when the manual makes no sense.They eradicate evidence instead of studying it.They defend process while the public loses opportunity.

Canada now faces a deadly avian virus with:

• no cure for livestock

• no vaccine strategy

• no antibody stockpile

• and no research gained from the one flock that survived exposure

Every Canadian deserves to ask the obvious question:

How does destroying natural immunity help protect the country?

It doesn’t.It protects the bureaucracy.And it protects a government terrified of deviating from trade-lobby rules, even when science is pounding on the door.

In the end, the Edgewood ostriches weren’t culled because they were dangerous.They were culled because they were inconvenient.

And Canada’s leaders were more interested in avoiding paperwork trouble with foreign regulators than exploring the possibility that those birds held a key to the next generation of influenza defenses.

History will not be kind to this decision.Nor should it be.