Like the file of Journal This weekend demonstrated that the federal state is in disarray.
Not only has it never been bigger, it’s never been more inefficient.
A large whale washed up on the beach.
THE DUCK TAPE
My theory?
If the federal state is so big, it is because the country it is supposed to embody is empty.
Because what exactly is Canada?
We know what he is not. It’s not the United States. This is not Quebec. This is not England.
But what is it?
“A hotel,” Justin replied.
And bed and breakfastan Airbnb.
A “post-national country”, without soul, without heart.
(When I say “heartless”, I do not mean “devoid of compassion”, but “devoid of center”, of “central part”, of “trunk” – in short, of identity.)
When you enter an Airbnb, you don’t feel the obligation to find out about the life of the architect who built the place where you are moving, the history of this place, the identity of the previous tenants…
You place your suitcase on the bed and that’s it.
Well, that’s Canada.
It’s everywhere, it’s nowhere.
Like these hotels located very close to airports.
The emptier a country is, the less identity it has, and the bigger the state that is supposed to embody it must be.
To compensate.
Give it consistency.
Make him stand up.
The federal state is the pin that holds the pieces of Canada together. THE Duck Tape.
The threads that connect the quilt squares.
What do Canadians have in common, other than the Constitution?
Nothing.
A Quebecois, I know what it is.
An American, an Austrian…
But a Canadian? No idea.
Someone who lives in Canada and pays their taxes to Revenue Canada, that’s it.
THE ROTOR
The role of the Canadian state is not only to “run the machine” and ensure that citizens receive the services for which they pay, as is the case in all normal countries, it is also to hold all these beautiful people together and give them a semblance of identity.
Canada Post.
The Royal Canadian Mint.
The Canadian Parliament.
Rideau Hall.
The 24th Sussex.
The Royal Gendarmerie.
The Canadian Charter.
Awèye, put some spit on!
Create some programs for such and such communities!
But the more Canadians there are and the less there is in common between all these Canadians, the more things go in all directions and the more the apparatus that is supposed to keep all these people together breaks down.
This is what happens.
The federal state is failing, because Canada is failing.
On all sides, on all sides.
Do you know centrifugal force? Who moves bodies away from their center of rotation?
Well, that’s it.
Canada is like The Rotor, this merry-go-round that spins and spins and sticks to the walls.
And the federal state is the centripetal force that tries as best it can to bring everyone back to the center.
Through programs.
With millions.
But the centrifugal force is becoming more and more powerful.
And the federal state is going to pieces.
