Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“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
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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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. |
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