> Yes, this is just standard bureaucracy and it's Skip's fault, as people are saying.

This does not match with my experience.

Bureaucracies, like human being, vary greatly. I was able to incorporate in Colombia at the department of commerce four years ago barely speaking Spanish, in just a couple hours as the bureaucrats there were very helpful.

I've also tanked tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers and spent over a year trying to reconfigure my corporate structure in a way that seems fairly trivial to me in Canada.

The idea that all bureaucracies are inherently evil is a self-fulfilling prophecy imo.