Nipawin - February 28, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis
sliding faster	After leading the country through one of the worst ever economic downturn marred by a
	secretive and corrupt governmental administration(1), Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is sliding
	faster than ever towards the bottom of his slippery slope: democracy in accordance to Jean
	Chrétien. This is the way Ralph Nader describes the slippery slope:
respect and accept	"Justice is a seamless web and so is injustice. Gets to be
	contagious. They figure you accept this, then you will accept that.
	If you accept that, you will accept this, and it becomes a slippery
	slope, and the real question is what will you accept? In a
	democracy, the answer is yours, and your answer we all respect
	and accept(2)."
revenge	But we don't have a democracy anymore and Jean Chrétien's hasn't reached the bottom of
	his slippery slope yet. So as Jean Chrétien has been cleared of any wrongdoing with the
	Auberge Grand-Mere's loan affair so his government is taking revenge against Francois
	Beaudoin, former president of the Business Development Bank of Canada.
countersuit	Francois Beaudoin sued the bank in October 1999 alleging that he was forced out of his
	position when he suggested the foreclosure of a loan owned by a friend of Jean Chrétien.
	In December 2000 the bank filed a countersuit claiming that Beaudoin misappropriated bank
	money for personal use, and now a federally commissioned audit conducted by KPMG has
	concluded that Beaudoin charged $159,000 in personal expenses to the bank including his
	underwear(3).
what goes around	Chrétien's slippery slope is taking a personal mode and we don't know if it will go beyond
	Beaudoin's underwear; but, we also know that what goes around comes around, and it is just
	a matter of time.
------------References/endnotes:
	List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com
1. - -	Auditor general slams Ottawa in final report, CBC Canada, February 27, 2001 http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/02/27/desaultels_final010227 also refer to http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/other.nsf/html/99menu5e.html
2. - -	Ralph Nader's quotation as mentioned by lawyer Larry Zatlyn in his speech at the PUBLIC REVIEW OF NO-FAULT INSURANCE IN SASKATCHEWAN, Saturday, June 10, 2000 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
3. -	Audit reveals misspending by former bank boss, CTV News, February 27, 2001 http://www.ctvnews.com/