Canadians: Is this true?

[RedGlitter]

Dear Mr. Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.

How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows

that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal

Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For Christ

sakes, do you guys do this by hand?

My birth date you have on my social insurance card, and it is on all the

income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health

insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight goddamn passports

I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ****!

I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you

an' me, I've had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my

house, then you ask me for my @#&in' address. What is going on? You have a

gang of Neanderthals assholes workin' there!

Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up

Yasser Arafat, for **** sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy

beach.

And would someone please tell me, why would you give a **** 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 @#%in 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 damn easy

and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the @#%in' place

like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some ******* to confirm that

it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know, the one where we're not

allowed to smile?! (@#%in morons)

Hey, you know why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate @#%ing Canadian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to

confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776

when one of my forefathers took up arms against the Americans. I have served

in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances

up the yingyang. I was aide de camp to the lieutenant governor of our

province for ten years and I have been doing volunteer work for the RCMP for

about five years. However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I

am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST

@#%ing CHINA !!!

[moonpie]

RG that is too funny - but almost too correct. My husband has been trying to get his name changed on all the correspondence he receives from Revenue Canada. This is the sort of stuff that makes people want to scream. The government workers here are not all stuipid, but most of them seem to be. I was with the Province of BC for almost 10 years and threw the towel in, because I was starting to get a complex about being "one of those" Yes we are totally automated up here, it just might take a few years for things to get updated.

Good on you for bringing this up to Canucks though. I find that Canadians are so apathetic about EVERYTHING after living in the States for nearly 15 years. No offence to other Canucks, but just my opinion.

[Richard Bell]

It looks to me like an e-mail some curmudgeon with too much time on his/her hands wrote, trying to be irascible.

Anybody who thinks they can get a passport these days by checking off a few boxes on a form is pathetically out of date.

I'm glad getting a passport is a time consuming affair. It shouldn't be like getting a library card.

[moonpie]

Richard Bell;737798 wrote: It looks to me like an e-mail some curmudgeon with too much time on his/her hands wrote, trying to be irascible.

Anybody who thinks they can get a passport these days by checking off a few boxes on a form is pathetically out of date.

I'm glad getting a passport is a time consuming affair. It shouldn't be like getting a library card.


Was that directed to me? Not too sure, but just curious. But you are right, passports like visas have to be checked out completely.