Effects of Globalization in Canada and Saskatchewan: Ossified Leadership and a Downsizing Economy

Effects of Globalization in Canada and Saskatchewan:
Ossified Leadership and a Downsizing Economy

Nipawin - April 6, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

loss of
its
labour
force
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.

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.

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.

not
Globalization
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⁾."

------------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1.
-
Professor Jack M. Mintz and Globalization: another sanctimonious leader joins the ranks of Jean Chrétien and Roy Romanow, by Mario deSantis, April 5, 2001

2.
-
-
-
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

Effects of Globalization in Canada and Saskatchewan: Ossified Leadership and a Downsizing Economy



Nipawin - April 6, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

loss of its labour force	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.

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.

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.

not Globalization	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⁾."

------------References/endnotes:

	List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1. -	Professor Jack M. Mintz and Globalization: another sanctimonious leader joins the ranks of Jean Chrétien and Roy Romanow, by Mario deSantis, April 5, 2001

2. - - -	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