Simplicity, common sense |
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Nipawin - July 29, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis | |
foundation of "common law" |
Simplicity and common sense must be our guiding principles yet we have people who |
can thrive only in making up a mess of everything they touch. We must remember | |
that common sense and simplicity are the foundation of "common law" and they are | |
defined succinctly in legal jargon as "reasonable behaviour." The only reason why we | |
carry on unreasonable behaviour is because we lost trust of each other, and we have become | |
so selfish that we look after our own welfare at the expense of others. | |
we cannot |
This is why our government is politically correct in skewing every information affecting |
its administration, this is why our researchers carry on fraudulent studies in the name of | |
science, this why we have reached the point we cannot trust anybody. | |
animosity |
Timothy Shire wrote yesterday that senior citizens in Tisdale have reversed a decision to |
build a senior citizen centre in the North of the town and they are now planning to establish | |
a senior Citizens compound in the middle of town(1). Shire states that it doesn't make sense | |
to reverse a decision and undermine the previous work of so many committed volunteers, | |
and that it doesn't make sense to develop a segregated senior citizen compound. What is | |
happening with the senior citizen centre in Tisdale is unreasonable and this unreasonable | |
behaviour causes a waste of time, a waste of money, and animosity among the people of | |
the town. | |
Greg Trew |
Few days ago, I came across the news that Greg Trew, SEIU union representative, was |
talking derogatorily against the striking airport workers in Saskatoon(2) and I commented | |
at home how he dared, as a union representative, to publicly talk against other union members. | |
Yesterday, I read the news that Greg Trew has resigned for personal reasons from the board | |
of the Saskatoon Airport Authority after Sharleen Stewart, president of SEIU in Saskatoon, | |
asked him to resign(3). | |
not the |
Greg Trew's behaviour was not reasonable and again because of this unreasonable behaviour |
we create needless animosity among people. It is not the first time that Greg Trew's | |
unreasonable behaviour creates animosity among different union members. Last year, while | |
the nurses were striking and defying the 'unconstitutional' Premier Roy Romanow's | |
back-to-work legislation, we had Greg Trew on TV thanking Premier Romanow's | |
participation in reaching a tentative agreement between SEIU and the Saskatchewan | |
Association of Health Organizations (SAHO)(4). | |
Let us hope that Greg Trew has finally learned a lesson and that he has become again a | |
reasonable man, that is simple and with common sense. | |
--------------Endnotes: | |
Golden Age Centre Moves to TUCs Field, by Timothy Shire, July 28, 2000 | |
Strikers find little sympathy: Union boss says airport workers asking for too much, by Jason Warick, The StarPhoenix, July 25, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
Union rep agrees to quit airport authority board, by Jason Warick, The StarPhoenix, July 28, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
The Political Mission of Premier Romanow: Divide and Conquer, by Mario deSantis, April 18, 1999 |