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Who is the practical man? |
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Nipawin - Saturday, February 16, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis | |
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Rather than having people centered economic and social policies, we have governments dictating policies based on their ideological constructs. The world is not based on ideological constructs, the world is us, the world is people. However, it has become very difficult for people to express their public opinions as democracy has been eroding and as has the media become the voice of business and their governments. Governments, left or right or otherwise, have become all obsessed with the concept of reducing their roles in public affairs in accordance to the precepts of the Free Market, that is free trade supported by privatization and unrestricted competition. |
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relevancy |
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John Ralston Saul says: |
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Practical actions of B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell: |
"Deregulation of all university fees... Cutting a third of the province's public servants, 11,700 of them in all... Slicing all budgets outside health and education by an average of 25 per cent... Running a $4.4-billion deficit this year and another huge one next year... Reducing personal income taxes by 25 per cent in one swoop, a cut that contributed to the huge deficit... The list goes on." |
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Now the big question: Who is the practical man? John Ralston Saul or Gordon Campbell? | |
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Excerpts from The Unconscious Civilization, by John Ralston Saul (as annotated by Robert Bateman, reprinted with permission from the author) | |
Calculated politics: the pain of B.C. radicalism, by Jeffrey Simpson, February 15, 2002, The Globe and Mail |