Saskatchewan Bureaucracy:The Need of Better Decision Making Processes |
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By Mario deSantis, October 28, 1999 |
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Our socialist Premier Romanow took over the Saskatchewan government in late 1991 from | |
this mean and lean political direction is a stagnant economy | the overspending Devine's conservatives. Unimaginative and reactionary, our Premier |
understood that the secret for staying in power was not to create wealth(1) for the people | |
but to do better than the previous conservative government. Therefore, Premier Romanow, | |
even though he realized that doing nothing would have been enough to do better than the | |
past conservatives, stretched his imagination and did something. In fact, he directed a "lean | |
and mean" economic policy against the people of Saskatchewan and on behalf of the | |
monumental projects such as the renovation of the Regina hospitals(2), SHIN(3) and the | |
Synchrotron(4). This lean and mean policy eventually led to the balancing of the governmental | |
budget, the digging of big and deep holes in the ground(5), and the overall shrinking of this | |
province to success. Today's legacy of this mean and lean political direction is a stagnant | |
economy where everybody and every agency is crying for more money for healthcare, for | |
education, for highways, for agriculture, for increasing the monopolistic revenues of our | |
crown corporations, for you name it and everything else. In short, under the political and | |
economic decisions of Premier Romanow's government and his Tin Pot dictators(6), we have | |
become a province of beggars. | |
In the last election, Premier Romanow received the message that his past performance was | |
our Premier doesn't know what to do | not enough for his party to form a majority government. However, our astute Premier was |
able to bribe the few liberal members of the legislature and form a majority coalition | |
government(7). To the disappointment of the electorate, Romanow is once again in full power | |
and telling us what to do. Poor Premier Romanow, he needs help, the government has run | |
out of money, he has run out of his magic and he still needs to make political decisions. The | |
last political decisions of this Premier have been catastrophic. Let us consider, for example, | |
his involvement in the affairs of the University of Saskatchewan. He has fully supported the | |
building of the Synchrotron at the expense of the university welfare; then in an effort to stall | |
the increase of university fees he diverted money from the Millennium Fund(8); then again, | |
at election time, he played the magic to promise free tuition to students entering post secondary | |
educational institutions(9) at the expense of all the students of any age of Saskatchewan; and | |
now that the University of Saskatchewan has not accepted the bean counters' proposal to provide | |
differential tuition fees(10) in accordance to the cost and benefit analysis of different degrees, our | |
Premier doesn't know what to do. | |
Governments of any level must make decision on behalf of their citizens | We want to help our Premier and his Tin Pot dictators. They must not expect ever again to |
pass unconstitutional laws and claim the Rule of Law for their observance(11). Governments | |
of any level must make decision on behalf of their citizens, and they must be respectful of the | |
law. Therefore, even though we are not the experts, we are going to mention in our future | |
articles some tools which can assist our Premier and his Tin Pot dictators reach informed | |
democratic and accountable decisions rather than rely solely on their greed, power or magic. | |
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Note: This hypocritical reactionary government reengineered the provincial social system by pursuing "reductionist" policies at any level and sector of the economy and ultimately affecting the intelligence of our research environment. | |
Premier Romanow: playing the number game. Publicizing the 22% salary increase and covering up the $40 million overrun, by Mario deSantis, April 19, 1999 | |
Technological Changes In Saskatchewan Health Care: An Abysmal Disaster, by Mario deSantis, May 27, 1999 | |
Premier Romanow's Shining Light To The World: The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, April 5, 1999 | |
Health Reform in Saskatchewan: Digging Holes in the Ground, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, October 20, 1999 | |
Saskatchewan Tin Pot Dictatorships: Lack of Integrity Is Lack of Leadership, by Mario deSantis, February 8, 1999 | |
Governmental coalition in saskatchewan: A private contractual deal at the expense of the electorate?, by Mario deSantis, October 2, 1999 | |
Premier Romanow's Latest Magics: Shuffling Numbers & Mysterious Bank Accounts, by Mario deSantis, May 16, 1999 | |
Roy Romanow: The Ultimate Electoral Number Game In Education, by Mario deSantis, August 29, 1999 | |
Tuition report trashed: U of S students storm campus meeting to protest committee's suggestion of what they should pay, By Gerry Klein, The StarPhoenix, October 22, 1999, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
Premier Romanow: Reinventing The Rule Of Law And Becoming Above The Law, by Mario deSantis, September 2, 1999 http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-ReinvenLaw-Sept02-99.htm |