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Our experiences in no-fault government in Canada is a reflection of our decadent democracy which put money and speculation before the interests of people. This no-fault approach to government has been more severe in Saskatchewan where a socialistic regime at the mercy of our big corporate culture and corrupted politicians has led this small province to become the worst run province in the country(1).

This blatant lack of democracy and speculative motivation is best represented by our former deputy premier Dwain Lingenfelter who has recently left the provincial cabinet to join a $250,000 executive position with Occidental Oil of Calgary while his poor wife Louise Simard, former minister of health, has been left all alone in her Regina's mansion to head the notorious Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO).

It is not the $250,000 that bothers me, it is the fact that this prominent politician had built a career within a socialist party for the only reason to look after himself, his poor wife and his friends. This is pure deception and you have to tell me what is the difference between left and right or between one party's platform and another, when everybody agrees to serve themselves once in power(2).

There is no difference, and that is why the first priority for all people of any colour is to combat the current political corruption(3)! Yesterday I wrote an article on the hearing for Colin Thatcher's early parole(4) and I was amazed at the statement made by psychiatrist Julio Arboleda-Florez that our elements of leadership are the same elements which characterize a psycopath, that is glibness, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, no remorse, no sense of guilt, lack of empathy and callousness. And I am disconcerted to realize how far away this characterization of leadership is from what it should be, a leadership for teaching people how to learn better in a knowledge society(5), a leadership for coaching people how to become leaders themselves(6).

Leadership in Saskatchewan, and for that matter in Canada, is not only the inner sanctum of the privileged but the inner sanctum of the corrupted, and our politicians are at the forefront of this new world's vision.

References/Endnotes

Articles by Mario deSantis

1. That is how bad it is: taking democracy in our own hands, by Mario deSantis, October 30, 2000

2. Governments must stop serving themselves and their friends, by Mario deSantis, February 13, 2000

3. Has Jean Chrétien finally overestimated the gullability of the Canadian Electorate?

4. Colin Thatcher, being a psychopath, and the elements of our political leadership, by Mario deSantis, November 1, 2000

5. The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management

6. Leader Ezzay List, by MANAGEMENT GENERAL