Effects of Globalization in Canada and Saskatchewan:
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Nipawin - April 6, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis | |
loss of |
I read the employment statistics released today by Statistics Canada, and I am dismayed to |
find out that Saskatchewan is the only province to have experienced a loss of its labour force | |
in the last year ending March 2001. It means that Saskatchewan is continuing to lose its | |
work force at the time when First Nations people are increasing dramatically and comprise | |
10% of the total population, when First Nations people include some 80% of the inmate | |
population, when our young First Nations people skip school and walk the streets in greater | |
numbers. | |
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sovereingty |
Something is terribly and socially wrong, and there is no doubt that our native and non |
native leadership is at a loss in addressing our social and economic concerns. I just watched | |
the CTV morning news and I hear that the unemployment rate is going up while at the same | |
time there is evidence that wages are going up as well. Then I hear professor Jack Mintz(1) | |
telling us that we have to 'wholeheartily embrace' Globalization for the survival of our own | |
Canadian soverignty, a sovereingty which comes with more police power and less | |
individual rights, and at the expense of the most vulnerable people, the aboriginals, the | |
children, the old and the disenfranchised. | |
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insipidity |
In general, we have an ossified leadership void of any innovative ideas beyond their interest |
to protect themselves by increasing our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at any social cost. | |
Our government shows its insipidity as honourable Jean Chretien, honourable Herb Gray and | |
honourable Brian Tobin respond to the charges against the Prime Minister in the Shawinigan's | |
affairs. Then we have Roy Romanow, our sanctimonious constitutional patriot, who after | |
having downsized the Saskatchewan people, the Saskatchewan economy, and Saskatchewan | |
health care, is rewarded with the retirement task to head a Royal Commission on health care. | |
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Paul Romer says that the new economy is an Economics of Ideas and away from the precise |
prediction of the rate of growth of the GDP. This is the economy our leaders must | |
wholeheartily embrace, and this is not Globalization, but an economy where we | |
"design policies to improve the quality of peoples lives(2)." |
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List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com | |
Professor Jack M. Mintz and Globalization: another sanctimonious leader joins the ranks of Jean Chrétien and Roy Romanow, by Mario deSantis, April 5, 2001 | |
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Note: This interview with [Paul Romer] will appear in a book titled Conversations with Economists: Interpreting Macroeconomics, edited by Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane that will be published in Summer, 1999 by Edward Elgar. http://www.stanford.edu/~promer/Int_re_macro.html |