Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis

mariodesantis@hotmail.com

Home
Up
deSantis Stories

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

 


"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be..."--John Maynard Keynes, British Economist

Until some years ago I would streamline everything, I would have a job to do and I would streamline it making sure there wouldn't be any repetitive or duplicate work, and the job would be well documented so that it could be maintained for any future need. Today, I don't streamline anything and I tell my sons James and Rico to be redundant in their life as life is really a metaphor of metaphors, the more metaphors you can make about anything and the happier everybody is.

Therefore, there is no quick fix for anything which is wrong, what is needed is the opportunity to understand and learn as many metaphors as possible. Our health care system is eroding and Premier Ralph Klein of Alberta has his own plan to fix it and Premier Lorne Calvert has another plan to fix it, and in the meantime Roy Romanow is touring Canada and the world to come up with the best health care model to fix our health care system. The major focus of all the proposed quick fixes for health care is more money from Ottawa and the degree of privatization.

The "Wellness" health care model implemented by Roy Romanow in Saskatchewan didn't work, and therefore our health care gurus have invented the new promotional term "primary health care." Roy Romanow will be entertaining a dialogue with all Canadians through the Internet and special evidence based surveys will be prepared where respondents will key their answers on a scale one to ten, one being "I absolutely agree" and ten "I absolutely disagree." Roy Romanw's final report will be wrapped up with the Canadian flag, would include the evidence based average and standard deviation for each question of the surveys, and would be marketed under the inventive name "primary health care" for all Canadians.

References

Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada http://www.healthcarecommission.ca/default.asp?DN=cn=2,ou=Stories,ou=Suite247,o=HCC

A guide to providing basic first aid in Sask., by Ron Petrie, Regina Leader Post, February 12, 2002 http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/columnists/story.asp?id=F8BF7D2F-5A31-4DFF-BA61-2FE6848D5F5A