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It was in 1999 that I became outraged at the malicious legal mind-set of our sanctimonious patriot Roy Romanow. At that time, Romanow immediately passed back-to-work legislation for Saskatchewan nurses as these nurses barely began their legal strike. That is, the nurses began a legal strike while Romanow's government already had in place the related back-to-work legislation. And what is more grave is that this same prepared legislation included clauses to repeal the related passed bill by the same government(1).

This back-to-work legislation shows the overgrowth legal mind set of our politicians. Romanow's friend Prime Minister Jean Chretien has been molded by the same assembly legal schooling, and today, our Prime Minister is posed to use the same federal Access to Information Act to undermine our public Access to Information(2).

Our legal politicians are using the law to undermine our freedom and they are not alone in doing so. We have conventional economists at the Fraser Institute who are telling us that we must reduce taxes to have a bigger Gross Domestic Product(3) (GDP). Further, these same economists are telling us to reduce taxes for high income earners as well since "The 30% of families with the highest incomes -- those earning $63,209 or more -- earned 59.4% of total Canadian incomes but paid 65.7% of all taxes... The 30% with the lowest incomes earned 8.1% of all incomes and paid 4.3% of all taxes." These economists have lost their intelligent common sense and cannot distinguish between caring for the well being of Canadians and the artificial growth of the Canadian GDP(4).

Along with the erosion of our freedom, we have the erosion of justice(5). And today, as the inquiry into Thomas Sophonow's wrongful murder conviction is over(6) we hear of police officers who "mishandled and even misplaced evidence and used tactics described as "unscrupulous" to force a confession out of Sophonow." We also hear that "the Crown didn't disclose statements to the defence that would have upheld Sophonow's alibi." And instead to look at the causes of this miscarriage of justice and charge the culprits, our justice system and media are all concentrated on the issue of Sophonow's right to compensation for pain and suffering.

References/Endnotes

Relevant political and economic articles at North Central Internet News http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. Premier Romanow: Reinventing The Rule Of Law And Becoming Above The Law, by Mario deSantis, September 2, 1999 http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-ReinvenLaw-Sept02-99.htm

2. Review could result in more secrecy: Reid Annual report, Ian Jack, June 13, 2001, National Post, with files from The Canadian Press, http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010613/590008.html

3. Taxes dip - but still eat up 47.5% of income. Figure lowest since 1996: Devouring more of citizens' money than the basics of life. Eric Beauchesne, June 13, 2001, Southam News http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010613/589944.html

4. Business must not be as usual, and the "Dalhousie School" of Economics, by Mario deSantis, February 26, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis334/dalhousie.html

5. injusticebusters, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan http://www.injusticebusters.com/

6. Sophonow inquiry ends, CBC Canada, June 13, 2001 http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/12/sophonow010612