The Editor:
There are 36,000 people in the province who are currently unemployed and looking for work. That’s the highest number of unemployed this province has ever had.
Despite the need for more economic activity and more economic diversity, Brad Wall and the Sask. Party are sending jobs and contracts to corporations outside the province. They’ve hired a corporation from France to build the $2 billion Regina bypass, a United Kingdom corporation to build a hospital, and an international conglomerate to build schools.
Mr. Wall is stimulating the economies of France, England and the United States more than our own, with public money. In short, he’s giving away economic opportunity and good, mortgage-paying jobs.
Sadly, the Sask. Party has put the province into a massive deficit. Plus, they’ve racked up billions in debt, and drained the once-flush Rainy Day fund. And now, they’re hiding the true state of our finances and their growing deficit from Saskatchewan people. This represents disrespect and a major risk for Saskatchewan people.
They didn’t save a dime from the resource boom. And who will pay for that?
More and more, it seems like the Sask. Party is in it for themselves.
Mr. Wall has spent as much as $40,000 per trip to send travel scouts to check out luxury hotels and VIP lounges for him before he travels to other countries. He continues to spend on the Lean program — well over $150 million and growing every day. They’ve wasted millions on the Smart Meter fiasco, the sketchy land deal in which they paid three-times the appraised value for land, and a cost overrun on the Regina bypass that’s already $1 billion over budget.
They let us down on things like emergency rooms, classrooms and the cost of living for everyday families during good times — and we can’t afford their misplaced priorities in tight times.
Trent Wotherspoon
NDP deputy leader
