The unpotency to look into the
social causes of injustice

Nipawin - Thursday, June 14, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis
   

legal
strike

It was in 1999 that I became outraged at the malicious legal mind-set of our sanctimonious
patriot Roy Romanow. At that time, Romanow immediately passed back-to-work legislation
for Saskatchewan nurses as these nurses barely began their legal strike. That is, the nurses
began a legal strike while Romanow's government already had in place the related
back-to-work legislation.

 

 

legal
mind
set

What is more grave is that this same prepared legislation included clauses to repeal the
related passed bill by the same government(1). This back-to-work legislation shows the
overgrowth legal mind set of our politicians.

 

 

Access to Information

Romanow's friend Prime Minister Jean Chretien has been molded by the same assembly
legal schooling, and today, our Prime Minister is posed to use the same federal Access to
Information Act to undermine our public Access to Information(2). Our legal politicians
are using the law to undermine our freedom and they are not alone in doing so.

 

 

artificial
growth

We have conventional economists at the Fraser Institute who are telling us that we must
reduce taxes to have a bigger Gross Domestic Product(3) (GDP). Further, these same
economists are telling us to reduce taxes for high income earners as well since
"The 30% of families with the highest incomes -- those earning $63,209 or more -- earned 59.4% of total Canadian incomes but paid 65.7% of all taxes... The 30% with the lowest incomes earned 8.1% of all incomes and paid 4.3% of all taxes."
These economists have lost their intelligent common sense and cannot distinguish
between caring for the well being of Canadians and the artificial growth of the
Canadian GDP(4).

 

 

unscrupulous

Along with the erosion of our freedom, we have the erosion of justice(5). Today, as the
inquiry into Thomas Sophonow's wrongful murder conviction is over(6) we hear of
police officers who
"mishandled and even misplaced evidence and used tactics described as "unscrupulous" to force a confession out of Sophonow."
We also hear that
"the Crown didn't disclose statements to the defence that would have upheld Sophonow's alibi."
Instead to look at the causes of this miscarriage of justice and charge the culprits, our
justice system and media are all concentrated on the issue of Sophonow's right to
compensation for pain and suffering.
   
------------References/endnotes:
   
  List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com
   

1.
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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

 

 

2.
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Review could result in more secrecy: Reid Annual report, Ian Jack, June 13, 2001, National Post, with files from The Canadian Press, http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010613/590008.html

 

 

3.
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Taxes dip - but still eat up 47.5% of income. Figure lowest since 1996: Devouring more of citizens' money than the basics of life. Eric Beauchesne, June 13, 2001, Southam News http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010613/589944.html

 

 

4.
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Business must not be as usual, and the "Dalhousie School" of Economics, by Mario deSantis, February 26, 2001

 

 

5.

injusticebusters, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan http://www.injusticebusters.com/
   

6.
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Sophonow inquiry ends, CBC Canada, June 13, 2001 http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/12/sophonow010612