In Saskatchewan, while we experience a suffocating democracy(1) and an unprecedented marginalization of our Aboriginal people, we have new Premier Lorne Calvert who is heralding the Workman Way, after Roy Romanow's Saskatchewan Way. And in Canada, there is a resurgence to go back to the old times and play the governmental dichotomy of socialism versus capitalism.

 And so we have our health economists headed by Dr. Michael Rachlis rallying around socialist medicare, and our rightist Albertan professor Tom Flanagan preaching the gospel of maintaining property rights, free contracts and free market prices. Our economic growth is not naturally motivated by the demagogic doctrines of socialism and capitalism. Our economic growth should be motivated by our creativity in finding synergy among our competing economic interests within a social system which supports the checks and balances designed to ensure governments of, by, and for the people(2). In Canada, as we are concerned, these governmental checks and balances have been broken, and this is why there is an ongoing social concern about social equality, and this is why in the course of writing our social and political failures in Saskatchewan I coined the term "a World for the Few and Privileged(3)."

We must stop cheating ourselves and say that the United Nations says that Canada is the best country in the world(4), while in reality we have been losing social and economic grounds, year after year in the last some 30 years.

Synergy of work and creativity lead to a vibrant social economy, and this is not accomplished by preaching the falsehood of either capitalism or socialism, but by ensuring our democracy, that is basically by having equal human rights rather than maintaining property rights.

References/endnotes

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

1. The right to tell the truth in peril!, Injusticebusters http://www.injusticebusters.com

2. Business Dynamics, by John D. Sterman, 2000, The Rules of the Game, page 380 http://www.mhhe.com/sterman

3. A World for the Few and Privileged in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, February 18, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis121/WorldFewPriv.html

4. A Saskatchewan Way Of Economic Growth: Good Psychology, by Mario deSantis, October 16, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis239/psych.html