By Mario deSantis, February 3, 2000

Premier Roy Romanow has created a new form of intelligence in the "written word(1)". As a consequence, our government, our bureaucracy, our legal community, and big corporations have taken advantage of the written word--just or unjust--to establish an overall pervasive Rule of Law and speed up the processes of globalization and undemocratization in Saskatchewan(2) against competing individual businesses and farmers.

In the 90's my business had the tangible potential to create relevant local wealth in the health care industry; however, the written word of our powerful Big Brains(3)(4) not only prevented my business to be viable, but caused incredible social pains for me and my family. Today the situation is worse, and the social implications of our globalization policies have affected our children and our local farmers. Governments should assure the right of every responsible citizen to a healthy and creative living; instead, we have a provincial government which trades the lives of our children for science(5), and which uses the written word to single out the federal government for the farm crisis in the Prairies.

Twenty five per cent of our children live in poverty and the first priority of our politicians is to build a Synchrotron in Saskatoon so that they may be reelected in the next election(6). Most of our fifty five thousand farmers are experiencing the greatest drop in their income since the depression, and our Honourable Dwain Lingenfelter(7)(8), Minister of Agriculture, says that in accordance to the written word it is the sole responsibility of the federal government to assist our farmers(9).

Our Premier Romanow refuses to provide any governmental direct assistance to our fifty five thousand farmers, and as a hypocrite has stated "Put the method of production in the hands of large corporate farms and profits will be the bottom line, and they will pay and pay and pay and pay for expensive food(10)."

Dear Honourable Roy Romanow, a contract has been put on your head for your incompetence and arrogance(11), why don't you trade our money for the lives of our local farmers?

Endnotes

1. Pat Atkinson, the Shortage of Nurses and the Rule of Law, by Mario deSantis, January 26, 2000

2. A governmental responsibility is to clean up our house first, by Mario deSantis, December 6, 1999

3. Letter dated April 28, 1997 from Mario deSantis directed to all Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers of Saskatchewan District Health Boards. Re: Computerization of Health Care Payroll and Economic Policies. http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-letterToChairsCEOs-Apr28-97.htm

4. Letter dated May 7, 1997 from McKercher McKercher & Whitmore and response by Mario deSantis. http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-letters-McKercher-deSantis-May97.htm

5. The Synchrotron and our children: Trading life for science, by Mario deSantis, February 1, 2000

6. Premier Romanow's Shining Light to the World: The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 1999

7. Honourable Dwain Lingenfelter has been caught lying, by Mario deSantis, January 29, 2000

8. Minister's talk clashes with facts, by W.W. Moellenbeck, St. Gregor, Readers' Opinions, The StarPhoenix, February 2, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

9. Province challenges cost-share program, by Mark Wyatt, The StarPhoenix, January 18, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

10. Low food prices will vanish with family fam, Romanow warns, The StarPhoenix, p. A4 Local, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

11. Crowd turns rage on premier: Farmers threaten to put contract out on Romanow as anger boils at rally, by Shaun Humphries, The StarPhoenix, January 31, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan