An business man in Chaos

Confronted with the impossible, here I am in chaos, in absurdity—would you have believed it? The “expert” advice is futile, nothing holds anymore. Those we were shown as models are nothing but exploiters of the honest man, as Steinbeck would say. Obstacles pile up before the entrepreneur; on closer look, maybe there’s even an asteroid heading toward Earth. President Doritos, a true Ubu father figure, deformed like him, floods us with nonsense, a coward, a “mindless machine” interested only in “phynance.” A true UFO, this eccentric forces us to rethink everything, to erase everything from my skull. None of these arrogant speeches have served, only bitter traces left by people who really cannot help you, and thankfully the lessons from my grandmother, the wisdom passed down—the culture of heart, courage, and respect that forbids abusing the weak, the smaller ones. Hard to keep up, but here, conquering the impossible isn’t enough. Like a freed ghost, unsuspected, a new American dictatorship appears to us. A monumental breach of trust; we can no longer rely on anything. Truth and falsehood touch in the dark, says the song. Smallness no longer seems tolerated, a realistic reading of the world powers makes us realize it. Currently, only the USA, Russia, China, and India can boast sovereignty, the others are lost sheep waiting for a permit to live according to the precepts of their alienation. Now, our protective Canada is counted among the small. Freedom of speech no longer officially exists; unofficially, it never did, always stifled by all the seeds of Trump sleeping within us. Try contradicting the dominant thought, divergence is forbidden, you will rot in oblivion. Yet, in this turmoil, the values of an entrepreneur do not change. Respect for life’s rules, focus on self-confidence, courtesy, set the table to be invited to the banquet. We discover we must manage on our own and not depend on dubious partners, but entrepreneurs know this from birth. Will one cataclysm be enough for our government to come to its senses and trust us? I proclaim it without any pretension other than our will, our courage—nothing stops us from assuming our own needs. No project frightens us, and we must stop feeding the reckless with billing without results. Billions thrown into the fire of oversized projects leave us bewildered, not knowing how so much can be spent with no result. Governments account for more than 50% of our economy. “Buy local!” implores the government. Bravo! I reply: “Buy from us!” The oak and the reed, a fable—we know it well. 

— Jacques Gagnon, engineer, CEO of Imagem