Dear Editor:
Premier Brad Wall has plastered Saskatchewan with billboards claiming he has created the recent economic boom. But was any of this his doing? Did he create the cheap land and housing which attracted a few speculators from other places to come to Saskatchewan?
Now Premier Wall is crying the blues due to falling oil prices after he bet too much of Saskatchewan’s prosperity on the oil and gas market. This is just like when he bet the prosperity of grain producers on the same type of private market when he and the former Bob Bjorneried Sask. Ag. Minister did nothing to save the farmer-owned and controlled Canadian Wheat Board. He and Federal Ag Minister Gerry Ritz killed the single desk, grain prices have gone down, and the windfall profits are going to multinational grain companies, all based outside of Saskatchewan.
This huge loss of grain producers’ income will cause a ripple effect in the Saskatchewan economy. Just as short-sighted is Wall’s foolish ideology of giving up control of Saskatchewan’s provincial pastures, the Tree Nursery, engaging in P3 projects ad privatizing liquor stores. All which will transfer wealth out of Saskatchewan and put Saskatchewan citizens and their government deeper in debt.
It looks like we will be seeing a Grant Devine cycle where Premier Wall will return Saskatchewan taxpayers back to a have not province!!
Eric Sagan
Melville, SK
