At the same time, as we have experienced a negative economic growth in the last decade(1), so our governmental leadership has weakened with the consequences that we have a Prime Minister who practices business development plans with his criminal friends(2), and a government marred by an administrative nightmare where paternalism and fraternity's loyalties take over entrepreneurial independence and public service(3).

The gimmick of our leadership to maintain an oligarchic, paternalistic and fraternal social and economic growth has to end. The gimmick to have capitalism versus socialism has to end, and the gimmick to have the World Trade Organization as the only leverage for economic growth has to end as well. And our governments must go back to what they were designed for, that is to serve the people and not to serve themselves and the big multinational conglomerates. The gimmick to have smaller governments while encouraging international mega mergers of multinational conglomerates must end as well. We can grow economically and socially irrespective of the different degree of taxation or size of government of any country, the common denominator being our willingness to be entrepreneurial, individually and collectively(4).

Our political and business leaders have been trumpeting an economic growth across Canada in the last decade, and they have been using phony GDP indicators to support this growth, while in fact we have shown in our writing that this economic growth has not occurred and that social inequality has increased with the consequential establishment of a social system for the benefit of the 'Few and Privileged(5).'

Our conventional GDP indicators are grossly inadequate to evaluate our well being and we need a new economic language to support our social and economic growth. And this new language should be used by our political, business and academic leadership. And in this regard, it is commendable to mention the work of Canadian economist Lars Osberg(6) who has been developing an index for measuring the well being of our social and economic system(7). In particular, Osberg's index includes the measuring of i)per capita consumption flow of goods and services, ii)the economic resources to sustain our social growth, and iii)our level of poverty and social insecurity. And it is worth to let our past Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien know that our Canadian well being has deteriorated significantly in the 1990s; in fact, our well being has deteriorated by a whopping 10% in this period.

And this deterioration of our social system has occurred under Jean Chrétien, and now this Prime Minister wants to be in power for another third mandate of Cretinism, and if he can't survive this mandate, then he will push for a new Canadian political era of Tobinism(8). Old Joe Who, come to our rescue please?

References/endnotes

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

1. Sharing the Wealth from Growth: Comparing the Canadian and U.S. Experiences, Jack Mintz C.D. Howe Institute / University of Toronto & Shay Aba C.D. Howe Institute, Conférence IRPP-CSLS Conference, January 26-27 th , 2001 Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario http://www.csls.ca/jan-01.html

2. Prime Minister Jean Chretien's involvement with the BDC's $615,000 loan: Lack of Common Sense Democracy, by Mario deSantis, December 1, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis275/ethics.html

3. Office of the Auditor General of Canada, Reports and Publications http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/other.nsf/html/99menu5e.html

4. IRPP-CSLS Conference on Economic Growth and Inequality, Château Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, January 26-27, 2001 http://www.csls.ca/jan-01.html

5. 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

6. Lars Osberg, Ph.D, McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University http://www.dal.ca/~osberg/home.html

7. An Index of Economic Well-being for Canada - with Andrew Sharpe, Lars Osberg, October 1998 http://is.dal.ca/~osberg/cgi-bin/titleserv.cgi?#117

8. Tobinism and Additional Rules of Law, by Mario deSantis, February 10, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis322/tobinsim.html