Die Bürokratie in Kanada verlangsamt die Fähigkeit des Landes, seine Wirtschaft anzukurbeln, sagt Dominic LeBlanc

I’m not going to lie I’m so, so tired of everybody blaming the public service for everything that’s wrong with this country.

Deficit too high? Blame the public service.

Healthcare not good enough? Blame public servants.

Transit not being built quickly enough? Blame public servants.

Everything is always the fault of those pesky public servants.

I am a public servant at a rural municipal public works department in Alberta. Can’t read the article because of a pay wall, but I can kinda understand the red tape being in the way and costing money. Let’s say I have a flooding issue that the answer to is very simple, the natural downstream channel about 1 km to a major river has been filled with siltation and overgrown with vegitation over time.

About a week’s worth of field work, should be simple and relatively low cost for the actual field work. But it is never that simple due to enviromental regulations. I need to engage a professional engineer, a biologist, and apply to the province with a full report, and stamped engineering drawings. For all of that it costs 10x the amount of the actual field work, and takes around 6 months to a year to complete. Of course due to cost council has to approve, and that is a large portion of the budget, all for the regulations and bureaucracy. The final recommendations and work would be the same, the same protections put in place for various needs.

I can also understand how we got here as I have seen what happens when we dont protect things, but there has to be a way to stream line things, and costs, as regulations and bureaucracy slows things down greatly, and can put a stop to things just due to the costs of meeting them.