Dear Editor:
In the past and presumably in the future oil, potash and grain prices will rise and fall. Potash and oil prices seem to have larger rebounds and affect the economy almost immediately. When grain prices do rebound farmers will not see the full increase as there are too many middle men skimming profits.
Farmers now do not sell directly to the buyer since the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board. Brad Wall made the biggest mistake in Saskatchewan history by staying silent and not opposing the Harper government’s vendetta of killing the farmer controlled CWB in 2012. That has cost at least $300 million per year to the Saskatchewan economy.
This loss of income to producers and taxpayers of Saskatchewan now goes to the foreign grain companies and bypasses Canada. Brad Wall has big financial problems in Saskatchewan because of his mismanagement. Saskatchewan has probably gone through its best three economic years and yet with just a one year down turn Saskatchewan is $1.2 billion in deficit!
Wall’s solution to the debt is to cut service sector wages, sell off money earning assets like liquor and telephone, etc., while also raising taxes to low income earners. But no one word about raising taxes for his corporate buddies who should be paying their fair share of the Saskatchewan debt.
It’s amazing that the commercial groups like the Chamber of Commerce and Canadian Federation of Independent Business could not see the loss of revenues for the province of Saskatchewan with the loss of the CWB! Oh yeah, they were the groups promoting its destruction and now their members want tax breaks? The money that was lost would make Saskatchewan almost deficit free, Good Work Brad!!
Eric Sagan
Melville, SK.
