"It doesn't matter if Milgaard is innocent... The whole judicial system is at issue... it's worth more than one person."

Until 1991, no matter my social experiences, I still maintained my faith in the so called system, but after reading Kujawa's comment I shook once again my head and became a bit cynical to the point that my wife Sharon would periodically remind me to look at the bright side of any event. And in 1999, when I read the book "A Mother's Story" by Joyce Milgaard, I was surprised to find out on page 251 of this book this same comment by Kujawa's. Finally, I realized that I was not alone to understand the significance of the regressive leadership mentality transpiring from Kujawa's comment; and again, I would share this sense of understanding later in the Fall of 2000 when I corresponded briefly with Sheila Steel of Injusticebusters.com.

And today, I realize that our governmental systems are constitutionally flawed as our Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is getting away with his Grand Mere's scandalous wheeling dealing.

Gilles Paquet, director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa, has mentioned that the Prime Minister is the only person who can call a public inquiry into his financial dealings in Shawinigan and has stated "Mr. Chrétien is like Louis XIV. He's entirely the most autocratic, the most powerful individual in the country and he has made use of this power quite strongly(1)." Paquet, has also suggested that the best chance for the opposition to obtain documents relating to Mr. Chrétien's Grand-Mère Golf Club shares would be if the Prime Minister became involved in a private lawsuit relating to the dealings.

Margaret Wente, of the Globe and Mail, speaks of Jean Chrétien, "of course he greased the way for government grants and loans to flow like milk and honey into the general vicinity of his not-quite-ex-golf-course. But that was nothing special. He greased the way for everything, and everybody, so long as they voted for his party. And so did the prime minister before him and the one before him and the one before him(2)."

And comparing Shawinigate to Clinton's scandal with Monica Lewinsky, Mark Steyn of the National Post says, "until the system changes, we are all Kathleen Willeys -- whimpering helplessly as Mr. Chrétien staggers up to us, grabs our hand and forces us to give him instant relief of his swollen shareholding(3)."

Our governmental system is wrong, yet when people lawyer Tony Merchant defends the rights of 4,300 former residential school students against the government then the Saskatchewan Law Society charges him with 'conduct unbecoming a lawyer(4).' And when this same lawyer is successful at trial against Revenue Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal criticizes Merchant's behaviour as 'outrageous' and 'unacceptable(5).'

I continue to shake my head, but I am happy of the public understanding that something is terribly wrong, with the governmental system and with Jean Chrétien. Business will not be as usual.

References/endnotes

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. Only PM can call probe, experts say. 'Mr. Chrétien is like Louis XIV': ethicist, Luiza Chwialkowska, National Post, March 29, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010329/515461.html

2. It's the grandmother of all scandals, Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2001 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Commentary/20010329/UWENTN.html

3. Chrétien's inability to achieve completion, Mark Steyn, National Post, March 29, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010329/515789.html

4. Regina lawyer fined by law society, CBC Saskatchewan, December 8, 2000 http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/12/08/merch001208

5. Judges critical of Merchant, by Barb Pacholik of The Leader-Post, March 26, 2001, Regina, Saskatchewan http://injusticebusters.com/index.htm/Merchant.htm