Minister Jane Stewart and Minister Pat Atkinson: insulting public responsibility |
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By Mario deSantis, February 12, 2000 |
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This morning, while having breakfast and watching TV, I overheard the comment made by federal | |
all the money "...is in your communities ..." | Minister of Human Resources Jane Stewart mentioning that no matter the administrative problems |
affecting the $1 billion jobs program(1), all the money "...is in your communities ..." I found this | |
comment disastrous and again my contempt for today's politicians became more acute. This feeling | |
of disgust for our political leadership comes when I just wrote the article "Don't trust statistics, don't | |
trust Honourable MacKinnon, trust yourself(2)." | |
defending the $50 Million overrun | As we have seen in our previous articles, we have politicians who if are not pathological liars are |
deceptive to say the least. Jane Stewart's statement that money disbursed by the Human Resources | |
is in our communities reminds me of the statement made by Minister of Health Pat Atkinson "no | |
one has run with the money" at the time she was defending the $50 Million overrun for the | |
closure of the Plains Health Centre in Regina(3). | |
Whenever you deal with pathological liars or devious people you cannot ever level your | |
their responsibility to disburse public funds in accordance to their mandates |
communication with them. As a consequence, education is the ultimate resource for levelling |
our understanding, and I strongly suggest that both Honourable Stewart and Honourable | |
Atkinson refer to the previous article "Making money is not creating wealth Mr. Premier | |
Romanow(4)." I want to make clear to these honourable ministers that it is their responsibility | |
to disburse public funds in accordance to their mandates and that their statements that money | |
is in your communities or that no one has run with the money should not ever be tolerated by | |
the public they are supposed to represent. Our politicians are becoming more arrogant and | |
irresponsible and it is time that their insulting behaviour be publicized and stopped, here in | |
Saskatchewan and everywhere else. | |
---------------Endnotes: | |
The questions of the HRDC scandal. How can we trust a government that is not responsible? By Marie-Josee Kravis, National Post, February 11, 2000 http://www.nationalpost.com | |
Don't trust statistics, don't trust Honourable MacKinnon, trust yourself, by Mario deSantis, February 11, 2000 | |
The closure of the Plains Health Centre: The $50 million overrun and the gimmick of saving money in health care, by Mario deSantis, December 19, 1999 | |
Making money is not creating wealth Mr. Premier Romanow, by Mario deSantis, February 7, 2000 |