When I read for the first time "The Fifth Discipline", by Peter Senge(1), I was immediately impressed about the author's use of his words, and his explanation of the natural origin of these words. The most important message of Senge's book, for me, was his ability to let us rediscover what our language should be like. And what bother me the most today, is the dividing language of our politicians and bureaucrats.

I have heard so many times the manufactured saying "Money talks" and I get a bit sick as I continue to hear it once more. Money talks is not part of our natural languaging, money talks is a brainwashed expression of our regressive leadership. And when Minister of Health Pat Atkinson raised medical fees and put some $4 million for the retention of medical specialists she showed her misunderstanding of the health care problems of her own making. Dr. Pierson, a medical researcher at the University of Saskatchewan, has stated "It's meaningless to have a specialist without equipment and it's meaningless to have equipment and a specialist without space. It's a multi-faceted problem. Salaries really are the least import reason people are leaving(2)" So, we want to remind Pat Atkinson of the natural saying "Money talks, B.S. walks(3)"

Another misunderstanding of our leadership is in their continuing placement of statutory laws to enforce our democratic will. So, we have the Chief Electoral Officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, who in acknowledging the continuing lower turn out of voters in the elections has expressed his intention to support mandatory voting and save our democracy. Jean-Pierre Kingsley has stated "Sometimes, in order to save democracy, you have to do things that might seem to run a little bit against it(4)"

Our leaders want to have consolidated health records for any citizen of Canada(5), they apply the economic philosophy that "Money talks," and now they want to force our democratic values by legislation. And you tell me my readers if this is the appropriate language we deserve from our leadership and if this is democracy. And I question the sincerity of our leaders when they say they want a new vision of health care(6). How can you have a new vision of health care or any vision when our governments continue to preach a policing environment, when our governments apply the "Money talks" philosophy, and when our own governments are visualizing a mandatory voting legislation in the absence of constitutional parties and constitutional bureaucracies?

References/endnotes

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf The Global Citizen, http://www.tidepool.org/gc/

1. Books by Peter M. Senge http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/senge/

2. Money not answer to keeping specialists, CBC Saskatchewan, December 22, 2000 http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/12/22/doc001222

3. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual, (The New Marketplace: Word Gets Around) by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, February 2000 Perseus Books; ISBN:0738202444 http://www.cluetrain.com/book.html Also refer to: http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis133/hsurc.html

4. Election chief warming to mandatory voting, Tim Naumetz, December 19, 2000, Southam News http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20001219/411083.html

5. Taking away our freedom: Health Records and SHIN, by Mario deSantis, December 21, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis292/records.html

6. Lack of vision, unstable funds hurting health care: SAHO, by Barb Pacholik, December 5, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan