Canada is BROKEN! - Can't run a simple website
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Summary
Canadians need more than 367,000 people working for the federal government and they can't keep up with the demand? How is this possible? If you were a private company and this happened, you would be out of business. But the beast, the Federal Government, keeps getting fed by our tax dollars and this is the kind of service we get from our federal government.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 7.32am. It is Thursday, August the 7th with the Big Blue
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Mug of Coffee. I hope you're having a great day today. And I took my watch off so I could show
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you the time. It's 7.32am and that's important. If I had any hair, I'd be pulling it out right now.
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You remember during the election campaign, Pierre Pauly have said Canada is broken. There was a
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hashtag on X. The Liberals used it against him. People who followed the Liberals said,
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Canada is not broken. Canada is perfect. It's not. It's broken. Pauly was right. You heard
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politicians talking about the fact that we have too many people working for the federal government.
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I checked out chat GPT this morning. About 367,000 people work for the federal service here in Canada.
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Canada. What do all these people do? And it's grown 42% since Trudeau got in.
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You heard stories about passport offices being overrun and not being able to keep up with people
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who need passports. People have to wait forever just to get a passport. And that's what I want to
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talk to you about today. My wife and I have booked a trip. I don't like to travel. I don't like to fly.
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We're going somewhere warm in January. Great. We need our passports renewed. They ran out in the fall.
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So we found out you can do this online. We got our passport pictures taken the other night
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and we have to register for an account with the federal government to get our passports renewed
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online. My wife says to me last night, you have to do this at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. I said,
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what are you talking about? Well, there's only a limited window for people to get their passports
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online. I said, what? Why? She said, I don't know. You have to do this between seven o'clock
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and starting at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. I said, well, I'm up. I'll do it. So she sent me
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the link. So I go to the Government of Canada website. Let me go over to the screen here.
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And I come across this screen right here and you go down here and it says register for an account.
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When I clicked on that, I got this at seven o'clock this morning.
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We've reached the maximum daily number of applications submitted through the IRCC portal new version.
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And I went, but it's exactly seven o'clock, which is 34 minutes ago, folks, at this point.
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And I went, oh, did she give me the wrong time? Oh, it's 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern time,
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which would be five o'clock my time. But this is very telling, folks.
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In two hours, maybe a lot less, the Government of Canada could not give me a registration number
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for me to get an online passport in less than two hours. How is this possible?
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We have 367,000 people working for the federal government here and we can't operate a website
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to take people's, to give people a registration number to do an online application.
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How is this possible? If you were a private company and this happened, you would be out of business.
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But the beast, the federal government, keeps getting fed by our tax dollars. And this is the
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kind of substandard service that we get from our federal government. Why is this a thing?
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Why can't I do this 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? Any other business or company or probably
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government around the world would be able to handle this.
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PSAC, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says if you cut any employees' services, well,
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it's going to harm our services. Well, no doubt, because you can't do your work right now when
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you have 42% more people than you had just about 10 years ago. 367,000 people in the country and I
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can't get an online registration number so I can file for my passport. This is ridiculous.