As you read yesterday, three young people who were accused of operating a luxury car theft ring were released because the justice system was unable to try them within a reasonable time frame.
Around twenty police officers worked for a month for nothing.
Strictly nothing.
We take the evidence they collected, and we throw it in a recycling bin with full diapers and an old computer.
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BIGGER, LESS EFFICIENT
What do you think police officers think when they read this kind of news?
Are we going to work even harder to catch bandits?
Or is there no point in killing yourself at work, because in any case, the system won’t keep up and the scoundrels we’re going to arrest will end up free as hell?
If you chose the second answer, you win a donut at Tim Hortons.
Which you will enjoy next to a bunch of discouraged cops.
And that’s just the justice system.
Add to that a health system that is crumbling.
An education system that is imploding.
A road network that is collapsing.
Hydro-Québec which is afraid of running out of electricity.
Overwhelmed immigration services.
An unprecedented housing crisis.
Poverty and psychological distress which are taking more and more toll.
And politicians who no longer know what to do to increase the income column. (Tax the air? Install paid toilets in every house? Tax the tax that taxes the tax?)…
And you end up with public services that are literally blowing up.
It’s cracking everywhere.
You plug one hole, ten more appear.
The state simply can no longer meet demand.
Even if the number of civil servants continues to increase.
We have never had a state this big and this ineffective.
Find the mistake.
Photo Agence QMI, JOEL LEMAY
GOOD CANADIAN CUISINE
Do you remember the days when restaurant menus were as thick as a telephone book?
You walked into a restaurant and you could order everything: smoked meat, Chinese food, pastas, coq au vin, spanakopita, pad thai, BBQ chicken, etc.
We called them “Canadian cuisine” restaurants.
Two hundred and fifty items on the menu, all bad.
There are hardly any restaurants like that anymore.
For what? Because it required too much inventory.
Restaurants now offer shorter menus. Less ambitious.
Well, I feel like the state should do the same thing.
Stop wanting to solve every problem and respond to every request. It’s impossible. There are not enough taxpayers to pay for all these services.
Look at the Olympic Stadium. Do we really need a 56,000-seat stadium in Montreal? Of course not.
But we persist in keeping him alive.
When you can no longer extend the income column, there is only one thing to do to get there.
Shorten the expenses column.
When are we going to start doing it?