What message are the Trudeau and Legault administrations sending to the people by asking a private company like McKinsey to help them solve problems in their jurisdictions?
That they are powerless to solve these problems themselves.
Despite a pot-bellied public service.
BELT AND STRAP
And what do citizens think when they see their governments turning to private companies to solve these problems?
“Why are you elected if you can’t do the job? »
“Why are we struggling to maintain such a large, overweight, and overstated public service when it is so inefficient? »
“Why, if the private sector is more efficient than the public sector at running the machine, why not award the contracts directly to a private company? »
“Why should we pay on both sides – the public AND the private? »
It’s like if we had pants that were too baggy that we had to buy a belt from the government to avoid ending up with our butt in the air… but that belt was so poorly made that we also had to buy suspenders privately!
Are you kidding me?
BASIL CREATED
Imagine if a company worked like this…
Company X pays three full-time computer experts (with pension, insurance, benefits, etc.) to fix its computer problems.
But if one of its computers fails, the company has to hire an outside company to get out of trouble because none of its in-house experts are qualified to help it!
what do you think would happen
Company X would fire its experts!
Moron!
In fact, the McKinsey affair, which has spilled a lot of ink both in Canada and in Quebec, is lifting the veil on an uneasiness that more and more citizens are feeling …
We feel that our governments are no longer able to solve our problems.
Not only that, but they can’t function properly.
You are overwhelmed.
Overwhelmed.
That the machine is collapsing everywhere and the state no longer has enough fingers to stop all the leaks.
Look at airports, passports, immigration, delays in the justice system, increasing problems in the healthcare system, inflation, labor shortages in critical sectors, universities no longer able to bring order to their lectures…
The state is like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times!
Hit by the machine. Swallowed by the monster.
Created Basile, who spends his time dropping his toolbox on tiptoe.
Symphorian, Ephrem.
Monsieur Lavigueur and the Concierge Gustave in Moi et l’autre.
“Eh? The pipe is broken? Where from ? »
THE TEMPTATION OF THE EXTREME
This is what happened in the 1930s.
People no longer believed that the democratic system could solve their everyday problems.
So they turned to other political systems that seemed more efficient, more efficient to them.
When you lose trust in the institutions designed to protect you, you no longer respect them.
Result: January 6, 2021 in Washington, January 8, 2023 in Brasilia.
As Camus said, “The challenge of my generation is to keep the world from falling apart…”
