Canada Gazette — October 20, 2026

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[Verse 1]
Quiet Saturday morning, paper's thin but it's loaded
Volume one-sixty, number forty-two, freshly coded
October seventeenth, that's the date on the spine
Part One of the Gazette, reading it line by line
Four commissions speaking soft, like voices round a table
Revenue Agency first, counting what it's able
Taxes, trusts, the numbers that keep the country fed
Quiet work most folks don't notice, happens overhead

[Chorus]
Canada Gazette, Part One, number forty-two
Four commissions whisper policy, nothing left to prove
Privy Council adds a notice, folding into the page
October seventeenth, twenty-six, turning a quiet stage

[Verse 2]
Canadian International Trade Tribunal next in line
Settles disputes on imports, keeps the borders fine
Checks if goods come in too cheap, hurting local makers
Rules on fairness, balances the scales like careful bakers
Then the CRTC, broadcasting and the wires
Telecom and television, tuning all the dials
Licenses and standards, keeping airwaves in their lane
Public Service Commission hires without the strain
Fair process for government jobs, merit on the table
No shortcuts, no favors, just who's proven they're able

[Chorus]
Canada Gazette, Part One, number forty-two
Four commissions whisper policy, nothing left to prove
Privy Council adds a notice, folding into the page
October seventeenth, twenty-six, turning a quiet stage

[Verse 3]
Privy Council notice, tucked in government pages
Orders passed in council, moving through the stages
Not a brand new law tonight, just an official showing
Part of how the country runs while the paperwork keeps flowing

Now flip to Part Two, a different kind of sound
October seventh, volume one-fifty-nine, number twenty found
This is where the finished rules get printed clean and whole
Regulations fully baked, already playing their role
Part One shows you what's in motion, proposals taking flight
Part Two's the settled version, locked and written right

[Bridge]
Two parts, one paper, different kinds of pace
One's the conversation, one's the finished case
Proposed before it's final, filed once it's signed
That's the quiet rhythm of a bureaucratic mind

[Chorus]
Canada Gazette, Part One, number forty-two
Four commissions whisper policy, nothing left to prove
Privy Council adds a notice, folding into the page
October seventeenth, twenty-six, turning a quiet stage

[Outro]
Volume one-sixty, volume one-fifty-nine,
Two parts of the same slow, careful design
October's pages settle, soft as fingerpicked strings
That's the Gazette this week, and all it quietly brings

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