Canada Gazette — October 03, 2026

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[Verse 1]
Volume one-sixty, number forty, dated clean
October third, two thousand twenty-six, the paper's seen
Part One of the Gazette, the weekly ledger of the land
Where every new decision gets its rubber stamp and hand

Canada Revenue Agency's got a line
Canadian International Trade Tribunal keeps the time
Public Service Commission posting who gets hired
Three commissions in one issue, nothing's required to be admired

[Chorus]
It's the Gazette, it's the record of the week
Dry as toast but it's the truth we seek
Environment and Health, Privy Council too
Transport's in the mix, quietly pushing through
It's the Gazette, flip the page and see
Government in motion, printed plain for you and me

[Verse 2]
Notices arriving from the Dept. of Environment's desk
Dept. of Health right beside it, running its own test
Privy Council Office whispering procedural facts
Transport Canada trailing with its own administrative tracks
No drama in the headlines, no sirens, no alarm
Just departments logging business, keeping governance calm
Four names, one Thursday, filed beneath the fold
This is how a country's paperwork gets told

[Chorus]
It's the Gazette, it's the record of the week
Dry as toast but it's the truth we seek
Environment and Health, Privy Council too
Transport's in the mix, quietly pushing through
It's the Gazette, flip the page and see
Government in motion, printed plain for you and me

[Bridge]
Now turn to Part Two, a different kind of chart
Consolidated Index, built apart
Nineteen fifty-five to June of twenty-six this year
Every statutory instrument gathered here
Section One's a table, regulations row by row
Section Two keeps counting all the ones we need to know
An introduction guides you, tells you where you stand
Seventy years of rule-making, folded in your hand

[Verse 3]
Somewhere a clerk is stamping, somewhere a press runs late
Ink on the roller spinning out the business of the state
No headline screams about it, no camera in the room
Just typeset lines of statute pushing back against the gloom
A printer in Gatineau, an archivist who knows
Where every old amendment, every footnote goes
This is the quiet機 machinery that keeps the nation square
Bureaucracy in rhythm, a song that's always there

[Chorus]
It's the Gazette, it's the record of the week
Dry as toast but it's the truth we seek
Environment and Health, Privy Council too
Transport's in the mix, quietly pushing through
It's the Gazette, flip the page and see
Government in motion, printed plain for you and me

[Outro]
Number forty, volume one-sixty, logged and filed
Seventy years indexed, nothing left beguiled
That's the Gazette, that's the week on file
Dry as paper, steady as the aisle
That's the Gazette, that's the week on file

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