Could there be fraud |
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Nipawin - Saturday, June 9, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis | |
endemic |
This morning I have mixed feelings on what to write. I have been away from the detailed |
goings ons of our economic and political events for the last couple of months and the | |
current events reinforce my understanding of our endemic social problems as they surfaced | |
in yesterday's e-mail exchanges with Timothy Shire. | |
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deceptive communication |
One of the major social problems was identified as the deceptive communication of our |
politicians which has spread into every facet of our daily lives. As our political scenarios is | |
concerned, we have a Prime Minister who has defended his raise in salary pay and benefit | |
compensations(1) by saying that if he would have worked for the private sector by now he | |
would have made more money than working for the public sector(2). | |
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Amnesty International |
I must add, that maybe, if the Prime Minister would have worked for the private sector he |
could have even be in jail by now as well(3). Further, after having assured that his pockets | |
are legally full of other people's money, the Prime Minister went on to champion our | |
world wide democratic outlook by defending the granting of the honorary Canadian | |
citizenship to Nelson Mandela(4) while at the same time Amnesty International castigates | |
our Saskatoon's police force(5). | |
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sixteen |
On the provincial front, the deliberate deception of our politicians continue as Calvert's |
government has just released a new sixteen target economic development strategy which | |
is supposed to increase our disposable income by twenty per cent within the next five | |
years(6). | |
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decrease of disposable |
Premier Calvert has been heralding the accomplishments of the NDP government by |
saying that since 1992 this same government has surpassed its target to increase the | |
number of jobs by 30,000 but in fact increasing the number of jobs by 36,500(7). This | |
is the deliberate deception of our government, they tell us the hard statistical evidence | |
that the number of jobs increased by 36,500 while at the same time they don't tell us | |
how this increase of jobs has materialized along with a decrease of disposable income, | |
with a decrease of our labour force, and with 5,400 fewer people working in Saskatchewan | |
than in the month before(8). | |
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lack of |
The calcified ignorance of our politicians can be summarized by Minister of Economic |
Development Eldon Lautermilch as he says "We've also set a target to address attitude(9)." | |
In the meantime our Acting Provincial Auditor Fred Wendell is reporting the lack | |
of governmental supervision in the handling of $34 million in public money that | |
has flowed through the First Nations Fund(10)." | |
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fine |
I am beginning to wonder about the fine distinction between fraud and deliberate deception |
as perpetrated by our socially and democratically contracted governments. | |
------------References/endnotes: | |
List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com | |
Passage of bill 'a dark day for Parliament': taxpayers group, Joël-Denis Bellavance, June 8, 2001, National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010608/585687.html | |
National evening news broadcasted June 7, 2001 | |
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's involvement with the BDC's $615,000 loan: Lack of Common Sense Democracy, by Mario deSantis, November 30, 2000 | |
MP's snub of Mandela 'stupid,' 'appalling'. Mulroney joins attack, Robert Fife and Corinna Schuler, with files from Joël-Denis Bellavance, National Post, June 8, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010608/585621.html&qs=mandela | |
Allegations of police abuse put Saskatoon on Amnesty list, by Jason Warick of The StarPhoenix, May 31, 2000 http://injusticebusters.com/index.htm/Amnesty_List.htm#anchor377537 | |
Ambitious economic goals set by province, CBC Saskatchewan, June 7, 2001 http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/07/econo010607 | |
REPORT CARD — PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH, Government of Saskatchewan http://www.saskprosperity.sk.ca/PFGReportCard.PDF | |
Bad news for Saskatchewan's economy, CBC Saskatchewan, June 8, 2001 http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/08/jobs010608 | |
STRATEGY FOR PROSPERITY, News Release, Government of Saskatchewan, Executive Council - 420, June 7, 2001 http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/2001/06/07-420.html | |
Report makes Nault's case, Opinions, June 8, 2001, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |