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 Learning Stories 
by 
Mario deSantis 
mariodesantis@hotmail.com 
 
  
  
 
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, 
free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to 
oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my 
country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 
1960  
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's 
worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown 
Prosecutor, 1991  
“The system is not more worth than one person's 
rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002 
 
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign 
  
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			Lorie Terry, spokesperson and researcher for the Coalition Against 
			No Fault Insurance, has just published an article in the Pain 
			Research & Management journal. In this article, Terry outlines the 
			faults of No Fault insurance in Saskatchewan and describes how our 
			Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) dictates unethical and 
			coercive rehabilitation programmes to dissuade automobile accident 
			victims from continuing with their right to proper rehabilitation 
			and compensation.
			No Fault automobile insurance replaced the previous common Tort 
			system on January 1, 1995 and with this new insurance accident 
			victims cannot exercise their legal common remedy for pain and 
			suffering. Dr. David Cassidy and his group of intimate friends 
			praised the No Fault insurance program administered by SGI and in a 
			paper managed and financed by SGI they claimed that under the No 
			Fault coverage the victims were recovering twice as fast as in the 
			previous Tort system, that is an average of 203 days versus a 
			previous average of 433 days.  
			In past articles I have labelled Dr. Cassidy’s paper a fraud 
			against intelligent common sense as in his study Dr. Cassidy equates 
			the administrative closure of an insurance claim to the recovery of 
			the claimant. I also feel that Dr. Cassidy is an impostor as in 
			dismissing the Tort system he implies that most of the claimants are 
			crooks while SGI is right in providing him with a million dollar 
			funding for his research. 
			In describing the coercive rehabilitation program Lorie Terry 
			writes: 
			
				I can testify from personal experience that individuals 
				were forced to undertake preposterous and agonizing tasks. One 
				schedule required patients to carry pails of cement, pull bags 
				of sand, push carts of bricks, climb up and down old stadium 
				stairs repeatedly, rake gravel, drive screws into old metal 
				frameworks above their heads and below their waists, and lift 
				boxes with increasing amounts of weight each day. 
			 
			No Fault insurance is wrong, and No Fault insurance is inhumane. 
			And in this regard let me point out that No Fault is a legal world 
			wide movement disguised as Tort Reform and preached by President 
			George Bush and Company. No Fault takes the law away from common 
			people and relegates the exercise of the law to the big corporations 
			suing each other over copyrights. This is happening to day in the 
			New World Order, the need of corporations have become more important 
			that the need of people, and the copyrights of corporations have 
			become more important than the pain and suffering of people. 
			References  
			Pertinent articles published in Ensign 
			
			Insurance research and medical ethics, Lorie Terry, Pain 
			Research & Management, Summer 2002, Volume 7, Number 2 
			http://www.pulsus.com/Pain/07_02/terr_ed.htm  
			
			"Tort Reform," Bush and the Enron Connection Center for 
			Justice and Democracy
			
			http://www.centerjd.org/press/release/020126.htm  
			Editor's note: Over seventy 
			articles on this issue have been posted on this site since the 
			spring of 2000 we will try to get a bibliography of this subject on 
			a page for review and consideration.   | 
		 
		
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