Public service and redemption

Recently, Don McMorris, a high-ranking member of the Saskatchewan Party government, pleaded guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol — to the dismay, disappointment and, no doubt, anger of many.

Some have demanded he resign as a member of the legislature. This is always an option. Citing bad judgment, those demanding this no doubt offer credible reasons for it.

While I am not a supporter of the Sask. Party, I believe anybody arguing for this needs to remember that no government, throughout the history of Saskatchewan, could boast it was exempt from bad judgment.

Hindsight always reveals how flawed each and every government has been; particularly so because those who make up government or opposition are human beings prone to bad judgment, fallacious reasoning, inept choices, but who nevertheless — through some strange alchemy of serendipity or hope — cultivate remorse and manage to serve the public through the long haul of political life, so filled with things many of us recall, rehash, regurgitate and never forget.

The cartoon character Pogo many years ago said “We have seen the enemy and it is us!”

Much is changing in our world. We even hear of driverless cars. Maybe somebody (hopefully, far away) will invent government leadership without people. Not here, I hope.

Painful as it may be for all concerned, one of the possible courses of action is for McMorris to serve the people who elected him. That is democracy at work, each and every day. Kevin Jozef Krofchek, Regina