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Gas Prices Increasing

While gas prices at the pumps are soaring to new heights, Saskatchewan drivers are being left in the lurch.

Back when the Saskatchewan Party was in Opposition, they promised Saskatchewan people that they had a plan to put money into their pocketbooks. They promised in 2005 that if elected, they would immediately cut the gas tax by one cent for every dollar the price of oil goes above $60.00 US a barrel.

Look at what Premier Brad Wall had to say back when he was Leader of the Opposition:

“Saskatchewan people deserve a break […] It’s time for the NDP to climb off their stack of oil and gas revenues and give the people of Saskatchewan some of their money back”.
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“Why not give families a break at the pumps?”
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“We are calling on the Calvert government to give the people of Saskatchewan, families of Saskatchewan and businesses a break at the pumps”.
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The Minister of Government Services, Dan D’Autremont, was even more direct:

"Government is getting rich from oil revenues, but Saskatchewan drivers are getting nailed every time they go to the pumps. It’s time the Premier started giving Saskatchewan families the break they deserve”.
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And that was back when the cost of gas at the pumps was less than a dollar per litre. Three years later, gas prices are now routinely above $1.30 per litre. Now that they’re in power, all the Saskatchewan Party promises to do is “monitor” the situation. But as the Minister of Finance monitors his growing treasury, people’s pocketbooks are being squeezed

The Saskatchewan Party aren’t the only ones breaking a solemn promise: Back when Stephen Harper was the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa, he too promised to help drivers. His plan? He promised to eliminate the GST portion of gas prices above 85 cents. But now that he’s Prime Minister, he’s gone back on his word.

NDP leader Lorne Calvert has written to the Prime Minister and demanded that he keep his word to Saskatchewan motorists. Further, he has encouraged the federal Conservative Party to follow the Saskatchewan NDP government’s lead by legislating that all taxes on fuel collected by the federal government in Saskatchewan be returned to the province and dedicated to transportation infrastructure and maintenance.
 
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Danielle Chartier
Saskatoon Riversdale
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