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
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We must break the conventional myth that our perception of being optimistic, rather than having common sense, is a component of economic growth. Again, today we have the manipulation of numbers and of economic policies which portray an economic well-being in Saskatchewan. We have explained in our past articles that the degree of mismanagement of health care in Saskatchewan is the highest of any other province. We have also reported the regressive economic policies of this government in any area of public service. In particular, we have been expressing the social concern that this government is skewing every evidence of our social conditions to highlight the bright side of our economic downfall. I am a simple man, and I don't need to play with numbers within a specific area of concern to stress my disappointment about this government. My number game is very simple, this government is a disaster for the simple facts that Saskatchewan has the highest crime rate of any other province; that we are experiencing the highest population growth within our poor aboriginal people while our overall population is stagnant at 1,000,000; that our small economy has been globalized to the highest degree as possible; that our individual freedom has been gradually eroded. Today I hear another B.S., that the Saskatchewan employment rate has decreased from 5.9% in August to 5.6% in September(1). I am going to express my concern about these statistics by stating that in the last year Saskatchewan experienced a drop of .4% in its labour force participation while across Canada (including Saskatchewan) we experienced an overall increase of 1.9%(2). Statistics is the discipline our government and researchers are using to cover up their misdeeds. Today, I also hear that Staples will establish a Call Centre in Regina(3). And guess what, we are going to have 600 new telephonists and we are going to further decrease our unemployment rate. And I forgot to say that the province will provide money to train these telephonists. The saga of this government continues... References/Endnotes Articles by Mario deSantis 1. Jobless rate drops in Saskatchewan, CBC Saskatchewan, http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Oct 6 2000 11:44 AM EDT 2. The Daily for: 2000-10-06, Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/001006/d001006.pdf 3. 600 new jobs for Regina, CBC Saskatchewan http://sask.cbc.ca Web Posted | Oct 5 2000 8:39 PM EDT Today's picture is of the old UGG elevator site in Tisdale that was knocked down this past week. |
