🇨🇦 CRA has time for antenna policing, not taxpayer service

A 27-year CRA veteran gets marched out over a homemade antenna and a few minutes of World Cup viewing, while the same agency routinely feeds Canadians wrong information and sits on files for months. That is the Ottawa machine in one frame: petty, bloated, theatrical. Thom Bartleman was hit with a three-day suspension over the July 11, 2018 stunt, then the penalty was quietly dropped when management could not prove the supervisor’s claim that he watched from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m., as reported.

This is what late-stage Trudeau bureaucracy looks like. A tax agency that cannot reliably answer basic questions somehow has endless energy for internal hall-monitor nonsense, public humiliation, and union arbitration over a boardroom TV. Canadians fund this circus while being nickel-and-dimed into oblivion. The real scandal is not one employee trying to catch England lose to Croatia. It is a federal apparatus obsessed with control, allergic to competence, and completely detached from the people paying for it.

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