Actually, let me be a little more specific than that. Today I took Mrs. Neo into Belleville so we could get the paperwork to apply for a SIN number for the boy. No big deal, right?
Wrong.
Now, how this works, in Belleville anyway... is that you take a number and go sit and wait to be called to the desk. Unfortunately, as is standard government practice, there are never enough front line clerks... so Mrs. N had a 30 minute wait... to pick up a piece of paper. I don't know why we were so naive, the dozens of poor sods sitting in the waiting area should have been a tip-off.
It gets better. Even though this place is called Service Ontario... they apparently are unable to actually provide the applications for something as esoteric as Social Insurance numbers.
When Mrs. N was impertinent enough to point out that the Service Ontario pamphlet she had taken from a nearby table and had been reading to pass the time said otherwise... well, that was just an unfortunate mistake.
So, even though the Liberals made a screamin' big deal about recently centralising all the government services in one location in downtown Belleville... there is apparently some other location that handles SIN numbers. Once again... they lied right to our faces.
As far as I'm concerned, they should actually call this place Disservice Ontario.
Sorry folks... just another reason... friends don't let friends vote Liberal.
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THE COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:
"Asswipe. Fuck off with your torys are better, you're an idiot to fall for their bullshit."Ah, yes... the much admired "you're a big poopyhead" defense.
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 10:56 PM, December 29, 2010