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Nipawin - June 23, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis | |
cultural
gap |
In my last writing I highlighted the phony effort of this government to bridge the gap with the |
Aboriginal people by preaching a change of attitudes just at the time when the Aboriginal | |
leadership is accused of mishandling our finances(1). My contention was that the most important | |
cultural gap is not with the Aboriginal people but between the "few and privileged" versus the | |
"poor and disfranchised(2)." | |
social |
Therefore, today, as I read the article "Vast extension of human rights urged(3)," I find the |
consolation that more people are understanding that the roots of our current social disparity is | |
due to our systemic economic discrimination against the poor. This article makes reference to | |
the report "Promoting Equality: A New Vision" and quotes Justice Gerard La Forest saying | |
that "Canadian human rights law should protect the most economically disadvantaged from | |
discrimination." | |
the
abuses |
I had a little laugh as well when I reflected that human rights laws are circumvented by our own |
government and by our own Legislative Assembly. Currently, I have been exposed to the abuses | |
of no-fault insurance in Saskatchewan and therefore I can make direct reference to the related | |
legislation which negates the rights for an injured person to have his own doctor or an alternative | |
rehabilitation program; and to the abuses of the insurance adjusters when they continually harass | |
their injured clients by putting them under surveillance, by discounting their voices, by | |
subjectively denying legitimate claims, and by putting them into forced rehabilitation programs | |
which further increase their pains and suffering(4). | |
government breaks the laws |
With the present mind set of our leadership, Canadian human rights laws are insufficient to |
protect our basic individual rights. Here in Saskatchewan, Premier Roy Romanow prides | |
himself of having been responsible to the creation of the Saskatchewan Human Rights | |
Commission(5), yet his own government breaks the laws and has become above the law(6). | |
----------References & Endnotes: | |
Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm | |
General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by Ensign http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantisNG.html | |
Asserting Human Rights by Changing Attitudes in a land for the Few and Privileged, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, June 19, 2000 | |
From a global point of view refer to Its up to Nature Now, by Timothy Shire, June 22, 2000 | |
Vast extension of human rights urged, Luiza Chwialkowska, National Post, June 22, 2000 | |
Coalition Against No Fault In Saskatchewan. Transcipts Of Our First Meeting In Regina! http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/library1.htm Transcipts Of Our Second Meeting In Saskatoon! http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/nofault.pdf | |
Honourable Roy Romanow, Q.C., Premier of Saskatchewan http://www.gov.sk.ca/bios/premier.htm | |
Premier Romanow is breaking down Saskatchewan's Rule of Law, by Mario deSantis, June 17, 1999 |