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Mario deSantis

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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960

The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991

The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002


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Traditionally and conventionally, economic policies have been described as being leftist or rightist. And as a consequence, the related political parties supporting these policies have been described as leftist and rightist, and the elected representatives of the people have been sitting to the left or to the right in the legislative assembly.

This conceptualization of economic political policies was carried at the international, national and local level. So, if we refer to the immediate post World War II political setting, we had capitalism versus communism at the international level, and in Canada we had the New Democratic Party versus the Conservative Party at the national level, and we had these same latter parties at the local level in Saskatchewan.

I find very intriguing that today, at a time of rapid technological and social changes, we still think in these political terms of left and right. Traditional communism has died with the breakdown of the Soviet Union, our Canadian national policies have regionalized and lost their significance of left and right, yet our Saskatchewan policies are identified as socialistic policies under the NDP party and as right wing under the recently formed Saskatchewan Party.

I mean, who cares if Romanow's policies are socialistic when we have rampant corruption in our textured leadership and the blame is always put on the people who do the work. For me, there is no more left and right, what I care is to have our freedom back and live in a motivating and democratic society.