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In our new socially changing world, the dichotomy of playing left and right should be removed all together from our political language. The left and right traditional philosophical entrenchment was rooted with our traditional perception that economic growth could happen only through unbridled capitalism, and that economic equality, or redistribution of wealth, could be accomplished only through socialism. Today, and with the collapse of communism, our economic reality is that regardless of the degree of socialism or of the degree of capitalism, we can advance both economically and socially for the benefit of every citizen(1).

Therefore, our different political parties should compete against each other under the premise that we can have different social policies which are inclusive and not divisive. As a consequence, I am not impressed by new premier designate Lorne Calvert when he says that "Let us join in common quest for a just, civil and prosperous and a caring Saskatchewan... we are not prepared to turn over this province to the economic and political philosophy of the right(2)."

Again, I am not impressed when he thanks Mr. Romanow and says that Mr. Romanow's legacy has provided him with the chance to "dream a little(3)." Mr. Calvert doesn't realize yet that Mr. Romanow's leadership has cheated the Saskatchewan people, and you know why? Because Mr. Calvert has been part of Mr. Romanow's leadership all along, till yesterday when he was special policy advisor to Mr. Romanow.

Where is that chance to dream a little? There are still people who believe that Romanow reduced the debt; this is a myth and the magic of a determined fragmentary accounting policy to deceive the people(4)! Romanow was able to balance the operational yearly budgets only by increasing dramatically the social and economic liability against the most indigent people of this province(5).

I say, who was more right wing than Roy Romanow? Is it by chance that people and journalists kept calling him Czar Romanow? No, it was not by chance. So, when Calvert says that he doesn't want to turn this province to the economic and political philosophy of the right, and at the same time he thanks Roy Romanow. I am asking what we can expect from him other than for him to be another right wing Romanow!

I am impressed by the recent statement of Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson that the provincial government should call an independent judicial inquiry into mounting evidence that something is wrong with the Saskatchewan justice system. Hermanson has stated that "from Milgaard to Martensville, the original Latimer trial to the foster child case, evidence is building that the Saskatchewan justice system is susceptible to injustice(6)." I go further than Hermanson, by stating that our injustice system has entered every facet of our daily lives, not just 'the justice system.'

The fact that Romanow has lied to the Saskatchewan people for the last decade of his premiership(7), is the consequential reality of his regressive mentality to support the justice system against the rights of the individual(8). If you protect the system against the just rights of the individual, then you have injustice in every walk of life. This is why Romanow built a society for the few and privileged(9).

Romanow didn't not hesitate to put in jail innocent people for the protection of his system(10). The fact that the police, Saskatchewan Justice and Social Services have confabulated for many years in trying to suffocate the truth from coming out, in regard to the scandal of the century(11), is evidence of the bad faith of this government, and that this government has willingly contributed to the erosion of basic human rights in this province.

Who is right and who is left, Lorne Calvert or Elwin Hermanson?

References/endnotes

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

1. Why We Don't Have to Choose between Social Justice and Economic Growth: The myth of the equity/efficiency trade-off, by Andrew Jackson, Director of Research, Canadian Council on Social Development, Fall 2000 http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2000/equity/ Also refer to MacLean's Economic Policy Page, by Brian MacLeans, December 16 2000 update http://www.geocities.com/brian79/

2. Lorne Calvert named successor to Roy Romanow as Saskatchewan NDP premier, CRAIG WONG, January 27, 2001, Canadian Press

3. Times of restraint over, Calvert says. Preacher replaces Romanow after fourth-ballot win, Justine Hunter, January 29, 2001, National Post

4. Premier Roy Romanow and Minister of Finance Eric Cline: Cheating the Electorate by Fragmenting Government's Accountability, by Mario deSantis, October 12, 2000

5. Honourable Eric Cline has not balanced the budget yet, he forgot our school-children, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 2000

6. Opposition demands inquiry into justice system's woes. Foster child case among recent examples of problems plaguing system: Hermanson, by Leslie Perreaux, January 26, 2001, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

7. Premier Roy Romanow's Legacy: Nine Years of Lying! By Mario deSantis, January 23, 2001

8. Note: We must break down Premier Roy Romanow's myth that the system is more worth than individual rights. The law and order mentality of our justice system for protecting the individual rights of Saskatchewan people can be summarized by Serge Kujawa's statement made back in 1991 "It doesn't matter if Milgaard is innocent... The whole judicial system is at issue-it's worth more than one person." Serge Kujawa is a former prosecutor and colleague of Premier Roy Romanow.

9. A World for the Few and Privileged in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, February 18, 2000

10. Welcome to injusticebusters in the new millenium! Web site managed by Richard Klassen and Sheila Steel

11. The Fifth Estate: Scandal of the Century, by Mario deSantis, November 30, 2000