It's not just government Canadian industry has gotten in on excessive paper work, and as an indipendent metal worker(primary income) , I have started to reverse

It's not just government Canadian industry has gotten in on excessive paper work, and as an indipendent metal worker(primary income) , I have started to reverse interview clients, especialy corporate ones, and just cut the whole thing off, and state "I will do metal work, but not office work", as each of these outfits has it's own opaque beurocracy that expects to interface with another opaque beurocracy , and the worst part is that they then never actualy have blueprints or decent drawings of what they want. I also get calls from start ups, desperate for fancy laser cut, or metal 3d printing, 9 axis cnc, or whatever and have to explain that any of those capacities here, are for in house use of some major aerospace type companies that wont take a call. The real situation is demographics, from where I sit there is an area bigger than europe, east and north of Montreal, that has less people in it than greater Montreal. Further, a slight exageration, but only just,There are many chunks of Canada where you could drop ,say, Japan, or France, and not hit anybody, and Japan having an odd shape might actualy not hit one single person with a little fiddling. Anybody setting up here needs to realy grasp the demographics first, and then pay attention to those few people who can navigate all of it and get something complicated done fast, and properly.