Canada Gazette — October 15, 2026

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[Verse 1]
Quiet Thursday, kettle steam and coffee gone cold,
Government's diary, every secret told,
Canada Gazette, the ledger of the land,
Volume hundred-sixty, forty-one in hand,
Dated the tenth of October, ink still new,
Four commissions clock in, got work to do,
Not a tabloid, not a headline chase,
Just the record of the rules that shape this place.

[Chorus]
Gazette, gazette, the paperwork that breathes,
Part One's the whisper, Part Two's what it achieves,
From energy lines to citizenship's door,
This is how the quiet country keeps its score.

[Verse 2]
Canada Energy Regulator checks the pipeline's pulse,
Keeps the oil and current moving, nothing false,
Trade Tribunal settles fights on foreign goods,
Decides what's dumped and priced the way it should,
CRTC tunes the airwaves, licenses the sound,
Broadcasting rules so your signal don't go down,
Public Service Commission hires fair and square,
Four commissions, one Thursday, laid out bare.

[Chorus]
Gazette, gazette, the paperwork that breathes,
Part One's the whisper, Part Two's what it achieves,
From energy lines to citizenship's door,
This is how the quiet country keeps its score.

[Verse 3]
Flip the page to notices, government speaks plain,
Citizenship's the heading, stripped of all jargon,
Grants and revocations, who's in, who's new,
The ink that turns a stranger into one of you,
Small print carries weight heavier than it feels,
A name inside the Gazette, and your status seals.

[Verse 4]
Now Part Two arrives, dated the seventh, calmer tone,
Volume hundred fifty-nine, number twenty, full grown,
This the part where proposals finally promulgate,
That means made official, locked into the state,
No more drafts, no more comments drifting in the breeze,
Just regulations standing firm as old oak trees.

[Verse 5]
There's a Part Three too, though it rarely gets the mic,
Acts of Parliament waiting for their regulatory light,
Statutes passed by Commons, signed and sealed by law,
Printed slow and solemn, the final word and awe,
Every clause a building block in how this nation stands,
Bureaucracy's heartbeat, moving through careful hands,
Boring to the stranger, sacred to the clerk,
Democracy's plumbing doing its quiet work.

[Bridge]
Promulgate, promulgate, a word you rarely hear,
To declare a law alive, to make the ruling clear,
Part One dreams it soft, Part Two seals the deal,
Between those two pages, watch the policy congeal.

[Chorus]
Gazette, gazette, the paperwork that breathes,
Part One's the whisper, Part Two's what it achieves,
From energy lines to citizenship's door,
This is how the quiet country keeps its score.

[Outro]
So next Thursday morning, kettle steam again,
Somewhere a commission's picking up the pen,
Canada Gazette, quiet keeper of the plan,
Reading slow, understanding all we can.

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