SK PARTY: "Lacking in Social Conscience . . . "

SK PARTY: "Lacking in Social Conscience . . . "

Postby Oscar » Sat Apr 15, 2017 6:41 am

Lacking in Social Conscience . . .

[ http://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lette ... conscience ]

Published in Saskatoon Star Phoenix on April 13, 2017

According to the Cambridge dictionary, if you have a social conscience, 'you worry about people who are poor, ill, old, etc. and try to help them'.

CBC News notes that, in his recent letter of invitation to Whitecap Resources to move their offices from Calgary to Regina, Premier Wall offers to: “subsidize relocation costs, trim taxes and royalties, and help find space in unused government buildings if the oil and gas firm moves to Saskatchewan.” Now, we learn that he has asked at least two more Alberta BIG OIL companies to 'come on over – we'll make it worth your while'.

Here's the kicker: Mr. Wall owns shares in Whitecap Resources and Saskatchewan's Conflict of Interest Commissioner says that's OK! Really??

Obsessive about his government's $1 billion deficit – due in large part to an appalling lack of management skills – Premier Wall's March 22 budget hacked and trashed its way thru public transportation, public libraries, education and health programs in all directions, plus other easy targets, leaving behind a trail of shocked and worried residents.

I suggest that we are finally seeing this Government's true colours: power and money is all – to hell with the people and the province's (sometimes critical) social programs!

Unfortunately, three more years of this debacle will set Saskatchewan back 50 years or more!

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Re: HUGHES: Letter - "Lacking in Social Conscience . . . "

Postby Oscar » Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:18 am

Quill Plains chapter questions Premier Wall's holding of shares in oil companies

[ http://canadians.org/blog/quill-plains- ... -companies ]

April 16, 2017 - 8:41 am

The Council of Canadians Quill Plains (Wynyard) chapter is raising their concern about Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall owning shares in Whitecap Resources and other oil companies.

The Regina Leader Post reports, "Wall has personally invested in three of the oil companies he is trying to lure to Saskatchewan. His public disclosure statements show he has investments in Whitecap Resources and five other oil companies. ...Combined, Wall and his wife Tami have 1,826 shares in Whitecap worth $18,842 as of March 30. That represents 37.3 per cent of their total $50,466 in energy holdings, primarily in a registered retirement savings plan and a locked-in retirement plan. Saskatchewan’s Conflict of Interest Commissioner Ron Barclay [says], '[Wall is] not in breach of the Members’ Conflict of Interest Act'."

This is also in the context of Saskatchewan already being the highest emitter of greenhouse gases per capita in Canada. It emits about 67.2 tonnes of carbon emissions per year per person. Greenhouse gas emissions have grown about eight per cent in the province since 2005. Wall became premier in 2007.

In a letter to the editor published in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on April 13, chapter activist Elaine Hughes writes, "In his recent letter of invitation to Whitecap Resources to move their offices from Calgary to Regina, Premier Wall offers to: 'subsidize relocation costs, trim taxes and royalties, and help find space in unused government buildings if the oil and gas firm moves to Saskatchewan'. Now, we learn that he has asked at least two more Alberta big oil companies to 'come on over — we’ll make it worth your while'."

She highlights, "Here’s the kicker: Mr. Wall owns shares in Whitecap Resources and Saskatchewan’s Conflict of Interest Commissioner says that’s OK. Really?"

Hughes adds, "Obsessive about his government’s $1 billion deficit — due in large part to an appalling lack of management skills — Premier Wall’s March 22 budget hacked and trashed its way through public transportation, public libraries, education and health programs in all directions, plus other easy targets, leaving behind a trail of shocked and worried residents. I suggest that we are finally seeing this government’s true colours: power and money is all — to hell with the people and the province’s (sometimes critical) social programs. Unfortunately, three more years of this debacle will set Saskatchewan back 50 years or more."

The full letter to the editor by Hughes can be read here: [ http://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lette ... conscience ]

The Star Phoenix has a daily readership of about 51,000 people.

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Re: HUGHES: Letter - "Lacking in Social Conscience . . . "

Postby Oscar » Thu May 25, 2017 3:56 pm

Prince Albert & Regina chapters at 'Stand Up for Saskatchewan' anti-austerity rally

[ https://canadians.org/blog/prince-alber ... rity-rally ]

May 24, 2017 - 3:57 pm

The Council of Canadians Prince Albert and Regina chapters were at the 'Stand Up for Saskatchewan' rally outside the provincial legislature this afternoon.

The outreach had noted, "SGEU [the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees' Union] is organizing a big rally at the Legislature in Regina to tell the Sask. Party government Saskatchewan people don’t want public service cuts, rollbacks and privatization! Government has squandered the province’s finances on over-priced consultants, shady land deals, and costly megaprojects. Now it is trying to force Saskatchewan people to pay for their financial mistakes."

The outreach then highlighted just a few of the actions Premier Brad Wall's government is taking that will hurt families and communities:

• Demanding a 3.5 per cent public service cut
• Firing government cleaners and contracting out their work
• Privatizing public services in areas like Justice, Highways, food services in Correctional centres and young offender facilities
• Selling off the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC)
• Cutting funding to libraries, post-secondary institutes, municipalities
• Raising sales taxes, which hurts low and middle income families most
• Taxing kids clothes, and restaurant meals
• All the while – giving away millions through new corporate tax cuts

Today's rally said 'No' to the government's austerity agenda.

Council of Canadians chapters in Saskatchewan have been vocal and active in rejecting Wall's austerity budget that was delivered on March 22.

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