Health care, in Canada, is principally not a matter of being private or public but a matter of good management and economics(1). And economic growth in Canada is not a matter of productivity but the problem of a decadent political and bureaucratic leadership(2).

We live in an environment of planned social paradoxes, and as I am concerned, I believe that paradoxes exist only because we fail to understand that there are more stories to a single reality. So we have the paradox that Roy Romanow is going to fix the Canadian health care system after he downsized Saskatchewan health care, the Saskatchewan people, and the Saskatchewan economy.

And imagine this, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has discovered the failure of his own government in directing economic policies in the past(3), and has now put Minister of Industry Brian Tobin(4) and Minister of Human Resource Jane Stewart(5) in charge of drafting the government's blueprint for increasing productivity and in turn raising the standard of living of Canadians(6).

And imagine these other stories related to the vicious circled mentality of our leaders; our own banks, whose tight monetary policies have been partially responsible for downsizing the economy(7), are now preaching the gospel to overtake the US's lead in the standard of living in the next 15 years(8), while our Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert has drafted a 16 goal strategic plan to increase the provincial standard of living by 20% in the next five years(9) as our Saskatchewan economy has taken a turn for being the worst in Canada(10).

References/endnotes

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

1. The highest priority to cure health care: stop mismanaging it! By Mario deSantis, March 7, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis134/stopmismanaging.html

2. Could there be fraud in our socially and democratically contracted governments?, By Mario deSantis, June 8, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis371/politicians.html

3. Grits admit we're 30% behind U.S., Luiza Chwialkowska, June 6, 2001, National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010606/583854.html

4. Tobinism and Additional Rules of Law, by Mario deSantis, February 10, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis322/tobinsim.html

5. Is Honourable Jane Stewart lying over the bungled $1-billion jobs programs? By Mario deSantis, February 14, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis118/HRDC-Stewart.html

6. Productivity spending spree feared. National business leader worries about track record of Tobin and Stewart, by Eric Beauchesne, May 31, 2001, Southam News http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010531/578235.html

7. A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000, Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, Ottawa, Ontario, April 26, 2001, Page 13 http://www.csls.ca/pdf/sharpe.pdf

8. Address by A. Charles Baillie, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer TD Bank Financial Group to The Canadian Club, Toronto, February 26, 2001

9. STRATEGY FOR PROSPERITY, News Release, Government of Saskatchewan, Executive Council - 420, June 7, 2001 http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/2001/06/07-420.html

10. Bad news for Saskatchewan's economy, CBC Saskatchewan, June 8, 2001 http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/08/jobs010608