Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.
How
is it that Best Buy has my address and telephone number and knows that I
bought a t.v. Cable from them back in 2007, and yet, the Federal
Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.
For
crying out loud, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date, you have
on my social insurance card, on all the income tax forms I've filed for
the past 30 years, my health insurance card, my driver's licence, on the
last eight bloody passports I've had, on all those stupid customs
declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the
planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms
that are done at election times.
Would somebody please take
note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's
name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed
between now and when I die! Man!
I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really ticked off this morning.
Between you an' me, I've had enough! You send the application to my
house, then you ask me for my freakin' address. What is going on? You
have a gang of Neanderthals workin' there?! Look at my damn picture. Do
I look like a terrorist? I don't want to dig up Yasser Araft, for crying
out loud. I just want to go and park my butt on a sandy beach. And
would someone please tell me, why would you care whether I plan on
visiting a farm in the next 15 days?! If I ever got the urge to do
something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell
not want to tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have
to go to the other end of the city and get another bloody copy of my
birth certificate, to the tune of $60! Would it be so complicated to
have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a
new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too easy! You'd rather
have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off,
then find some bozo to confirm that it's really me on the stupid
picture - you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?! Hey, you
know why we can't smile? We're ticked off!
Signed - An Irate Citizen
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Friday, February 12, 2021
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
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