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 Learning Stories 
by 
Mario deSantis 
mariodesantis@hotmail.com 
 
  
  
 
“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 
  
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			Traditionally and conventionally, economic policies have been 
			described as being leftist or rightist. And as a consequence, the 
			related political parties supporting these policies have been 
			described as leftist and rightist, and the elected representatives 
			of the people have been sitting to the left or to the right in the 
			legislative assembly. 
			This conceptualization of economic political policies was carried 
			at the international, national and local level. So, if we refer to 
			the immediate post World War II political setting, we had capitalism 
			versus communism at the international level, and in Canada we had 
			the New Democratic Party versus the Conservative Party at the 
			national level, and we had these same latter parties at the local 
			level in Saskatchewan.  
			I find very intriguing that today, at a time of rapid 
			technological and social changes, we still think in these political 
			terms of left and right. Traditional communism has died with the 
			breakdown of the Soviet Union, our Canadian national policies have 
			regionalized and lost their significance of left and right, yet our 
			Saskatchewan policies are identified as socialistic policies under 
			the NDP party and as right wing under the recently formed 
			Saskatchewan Party.  
			I mean, who cares if Romanow's policies are socialistic when we 
			have rampant corruption in our textured leadership and the blame is 
			always put on the people who do the work. For me, there is no more 
			left and right, what I care is to have our freedom back and live in 
			a motivating and democratic society.   | 
		 
		
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