So, as I read the article "How do I measure thee? Let me count the ways"(1) by Jeffrey Simpson, journalist with The Globe and Mail, I don't feel alone with my sense of alienation in understanding our politicians and bureaucrats. In this article, Simpson states that Canada is not number one among industrialized countries and that The Conference Board of Canada has developed a much more comprehensive set of yardsticks by which to measure Canada's international performance against six other countries. Simpson says that these yardsticks comparing Canada to the United States, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Australia and Japan tell a sobering tale and he is disappointed by our sunshine patriots who govern us and who continue to expose this Canada No 1 fallacy.

As I have been publishing my articles on Ensign, I have gradually appreciated the outright abuses of power of this government, their lying, their skewing of information and their pursuing of social growth by the so called good psychology. The truth is that we must forget the use of the good psychology approach to run our business, and be realistic in appreciating our social conditions and in creating our own future.

We in Saskatchewan are not No 1, and we will be No 1 only at the time when we are going to do better than in the past and not when we are going to compare ourselves to others! We must stop deceiving ourselves, but then, how can anyone help when we hear Minister of Health Pat Atkinson saying that the problem of our medical specialists leaving the province is due to "personality conflicts" which are not conducive to "a positive environment(2)."

References/Endnotes

Articles by Mario deSantis

1. How do I measure thee? Let me count the ways, by Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail, October 9, 2000

2. Saskatchewan Health Care: Confirmation Of The Most Mismanaged System In Canada, by Mario deSantis, October 12, 2000